Summary:
Zip code 48842 is home to exactly one high school, Holt Senior High School, which serves grades 9-12 with an enrollment of 1,529 students as part of the Holt Public Schools district.
For parents considering this area, Holt Senior High School presents a mixed academic picture. The school's greatest strength is English Language Arts, where it consistently outperforms the state—scoring 57.6% proficiency on SAT Reading/Writing (5.5 points above the state average) and showing similar advantages on PSAT ELA tests in both 9th and 10th grades. However, mathematics is a significant concern, with proficiency rates falling dramatically below state averages: SAT Math proficiency is just 14.8% compared to the state's 26.5%, and 9th-grade PSAT Math proficiency sits at only 19.5% versus the state's 33.5%—a 14-point gap. The school also shows a troubling downward trend in its state ranking, dropping from the 62nd percentile in 2023-2024 to the 50th percentile in 2025-2026, with SAT Math proficiency declining nearly 10 percentage points in a single year.
On a more positive note, the school's graduation rate of 86.1% exceeds the state average of 84.0%, and its dropout rate of 4.5% is significantly better than the state's 7.1%. However, chronic absenteeism is a serious issue, affecting 38.3% of students—well above both the district rate of 30.6% and the state rate of 27.9%. With a student-teacher ratio of 18.6:1 and per-student spending of $16,112, resources appear adequate, but the combination of high absenteeism and declining math scores suggests these resources may not be reaching the students who need them most. Since Holt Senior High School is the only high school in the district, all district-level metrics directly reflect this school's performance, making it the sole educational option for families in this zip code.
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