Garden’s public schools score below 58% of Michigan districts
The public schools Garden’s kids attend trail 58% of Michigan’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How Garden compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Michigan’s state tests against the state average. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Michigan only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well below the state in reading
Parents talk
What Garden families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Garden
There’s no college in Garden, but 1 is within 30 miles. The closest is Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba, 25.4 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Garden. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results, graded within Michigan. Stars are from neighbors.