Three public school districts in Macomb County, Michigan, received overall grades ranging from D+ to D− in Niche’s latest evaluations—the lowest overall marks among the county’s listed districts.
The 2027 evaluations identify serious academic concerns, but the districts’ own reporting also documents college-course participation, targeted reading instruction and improvement plans with measurable deadlines. Those details help explain what families would encounter beyond a letter on a report card.
Michigan Collegiate and Mount Clemens share a D+ and appear alphabetically below. Eastpointe received D−.
Michigan Collegiate — Overall Niche Grade: D+
Michigan Collegiate operates campuses in Roseville and Warren. It is a public charter district authorized by Ferris State University, whose current directory identifies its grade span as K–12.
Its current Niche profile lists 792 students and a student-teacher ratio of 20:1. That ratio compares enrollment with full-time-equivalent teachers; it is not an average class size.
Low Proficiency Alongside College-Course Participation
Niche gives Michigan Collegiate a C− for academics and a C for college preparation. The profile reports reading proficiency of 9% and math proficiency of 5%, identifying the assessment period as 2023–24.
Those figures establish a substantial academic concern. Yet college coursework is also part of the experience for many older students.
The middle/high school’s February 2026 annual education report says 21% of juniors and 62% of seniors participated in dual enrollment during 2024–25. It identifies the Woodbridge Promise program through Ferris State University as an available route.
Participation does not establish that every student earned transferable credit, but it shows that college access is more than a brochure promise.
Extra Instruction and an Elementary Improvement Plan
The same school report describes reading and math intervention for students in grades seven through nine, an Academic Success class for grades nine through 12, free summer school and credit recovery.
It also identifies difficulty hiring experienced teachers, particularly in special education, and describes mentoring and tuition assistance to help staff obtain certification.
Separately, Michigan Collegiate’s state partnership agreement sets elementary-school reading and math targets for 2027 and 2028. These are commitments to improve, rather than completed gains, and they apply specifically to the elementary school.
Mount Clemens Community School District — Overall Niche Grade: D+
Mount Clemens serves students from preschool through grade 12. Its Niche district profile lists 823 students and a 21:1 student-teacher ratio.
The district’s small enrollment does not remove its academic challenges, but its published plans make the next steps unusually specific.
Reading and Math Targets Extend Through 2028
Niche assigns Mount Clemens a D for academics and a C for teachers. Its profile reports 12% reading proficiency and 6% math proficiency, using the 2023–24 assessment period.
A newer Michigan partnership agreement establishes school-specific benchmarks. At Seminole Academy, it identifies 2025 baselines of 11.41% in reading and 5.13% in math for full-academic-year students.
The agreement calls for increases of at least 1.5 percentage points by 2027 and three percentage points by 2028 in each subject. These school-level figures cover a defined student population and should not be treated as an update to Niche’s districtwide percentages.
The agreement also calls for developing and implementing a districtwide system of academic and behavioral supports.
Reading Intervention Has a Place in the School Day
Mount Clemens High School’s February 2026 education report describes scheduled intervention time when selected teachers work individually or in small groups with students on identified learning gaps.
The school also reports using the Adolescent Accelerated Reading Initiative for students reading multiple grade levels behind, alongside a student-support team and a school-community liaison who connects families with resources.
These are concrete services families can examine without assuming that their availability guarantees results.
The report records six students participating in dual enrollment in 2023–24. That is a modest number, but it establishes a college-course option alongside the school’s more immediate work of strengthening foundational skills.
Eastpointe Community Schools — Overall Niche Grade: D−
Eastpointe Community Schools received the lowest overall grade in this comparison. The preschool-through-grade-12 district’s Niche profile lists 2,178 students and an 18:1 student-teacher ratio.
Its reporting describes a district working on basic academic performance while maintaining college and career options for older students.
Math Remains Behind the District’s Own Target
Niche gives Eastpointe a D for academics, a C for teachers and a C− for college preparation. Its profile reports reading proficiency of 12% and math proficiency of 5%, identifying the underlying assessment period as 2024–25.
Eastpointe’s strategic-plan progress update, dated December 4, 2025, provides another way to assess its priorities. The district marked state-assessment math performance, local math growth and local reading growth as behind target.
It marked state English language arts performance as on target. Those labels describe progress against the district’s own goals; they are not state accountability grades.
The distinction matters because meeting an improvement target and reaching broad proficiency are different achievements.
Tutoring, College Classes and Career Courses
The district curriculum department reports providing intensive tutoring in reading and math for targeted students, plus guided reading and small-group instruction at the elementary level.
It also describes investments in K–12 math materials, secondary English language arts materials and special education curriculum. These are documented instructional changes, although the page does not establish their effect on achievement.
At the secondary level, Eastpointe High School lists dual enrollment through Macomb Community College, honors and Advanced Placement classes, and career courses including culinary arts, medical careers, law enforcement and marketing.
For families, the practical question is how students gain access to those options while receiving any foundational help they need. Both parts belong in a conversation about readiness after graduation.
Macomb’s Comparison Includes Different Kinds of Districts
The county listing spans overall grades from A− to D−. Its three lowest-graded entries therefore occupy a distinctly different part of the scale from the county’s highest-graded districts.
But this is also a comparison across different public-school structures. Michigan Collegiate is a charter district with campuses in two communities, while Mount Clemens and Eastpointe are community school districts.
The listing also includes Macomb Intermediate School District, which has a different service role from a conventional neighborhood district.
Niche’s current methodology combines academics with teachers, culture and diversity, family surveys, resources, activities and sports. Its overall grade reflects that combination rather than standardized-test performance alone.
Reporting dates require equal care: the proficiency figures cited here come from two different assessment years, so they cannot support a same-year comparison among all three districts.
Niche’s displayed enrollment counts are likewise presented as profile figures, rather than a verified October 2026 census.
