Summary:
Zip code 48335 is home to just one high school, Oakland FlexTech High School, a small public charter school serving grades 9 through 12 with 162 students enrolled.
Oakland FlexTech High School, which operates as its own district (Oakland FlexTech High School), presents a mixed academic profile. The school’s strongest subject is science, where 41.9% of 11th graders are proficient, beating the state average of 35.2%. Social studies performance is essentially at the state average (43.8% vs. 43.2%). However, the school struggles significantly in mathematics, with only 18.2% of 11th graders proficient on the SAT Math section compared to the state’s 26.5%. Reading and writing scores also lag, with 45.5% proficient on SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (state: 52.1%) and even lower PSAT English Language Arts scores for 9th and 10th graders (47.6% and 48.3%, respectively, versus state averages above 58%). The school’s state ranking has been volatile, dropping to the 39th percentile in 2024-2025 before rebounding to the 51st percentile for 2025-2026.
On the positive side, the school maintains a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.3:1, allowing for more individualized attention, and spends $11,587 per student. Its dropout rate is impressively low at 3.4%, less than half the state average of 7.1%, suggesting strong student retention. However, the graduation rate of 81.0% falls below the state’s 84.0%, meaning nearly one in five students does not finish in four years. About 52% of students are economically disadvantaged. A notable concern is chronic absenteeism, which was a very high 51.6% in 2020-2021, though no recent school-level data is available to assess current trends. For parents, this school offers a tight-knit, flexible learning environment with strong science outcomes and low dropout rates, but the persistent gaps in math and early high school reading skills are important factors to consider.
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