Summary:
Zip code 49684 in Michigan is home to two public high schools serving grades 6 through 12 under The Greenspire School district, with a combined enrollment of roughly 269 students in a moderate-income area where about 38-40% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
The Greenspire High School is the larger of the two schools, serving grades 9-12 with 176 students, and it clearly outperforms its sister campus in most academic measures. In the most recent school year, this high school earned a 3-star rating (58th percentile statewide), though it achieved an impressive 5-star rating and 91st percentile just one year prior. Its standout strengths are in Science (47.2% proficiency vs. 35.2% state) and Social Studies (52.8% vs. 43.2% state), along with strong SAT Reading/Writing scores (66.7% vs. 52.1% state). However, SAT Math proficiency is a major weakness at just 13.9% compared to the 26.5% state average. The school's graduation rate (81.2%) trails the state average (84.0%), but its dropout rate (6.2%) is better than the state's 7.1%.
In contrast, The Greenspire School, which serves grades 6-12 with just 93 students, struggles academically across nearly all subjects and grade levels, with math being particularly problematic—for example, only 16.7% of 7th graders are proficient in math versus 33.3% statewide. Despite having a better student-teacher ratio (10.3:1 vs. 17.6:1) and higher per-student spending ($11,572 vs. $10,141), this campus consistently underperforms the state averages. One notable positive is its chronic absenteeism rate of 34.3%, which is dramatically better than the district's alarming 75.1% rate, suggesting severe attendance issues exist elsewhere in the district. For parents, the choice is clear: the high school offers strong humanities and science instruction but needs urgent help in math, while the middle school grades require broader academic intervention despite receiving more resources per student.
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