Lake Orion Schools Rank in Top Half of Public Schools in State

All 11 of Lake Orion's elementary, middle and high schools were among the top half of schools statewide in a "Top-to-Bottom" ranking of public schools released Friday.

The Michigan Department of Education is required each year to produce a list of persistently lowest achieving schools; last year, the department also published an overall Top-to-Bottom ranking of all schools in the state.

None of the Lake Orion schools were among those labeled as "persistently lowest achieving."

The Top-to-Bottom ranking includes all public schools and is based on student proficiency and improvement in math, reading, writing, science and social studies, as well as graduation rate and achievement gaps between students within a school.

The department acknowledges the methodology used to rank the schools is complex, but says it is a true apples-to-apples comparison of schools, according to an explanation of the methodology posted on the department's website.

Here's how the individual Lake Orion schools ranked; a percentile rank of 99, for example, means that 99% of schools statewide scored below that school's result.

Lake Orion Schools

Statewide
Percentile
Ranking 2011

* The 2011 rankings were based on a set of test scores and a methodology that has changed from 2010, so exact comparisons should not be made.

Source: Michigan Department of Education