Lake Orion, MI schools
Lake Orion’s public schools score well above Michigan’s averages: 64% of students are proficient in reading against 47.9% statewide, and 96% of high schoolers graduate on time against 82.9%.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Lake Orion’s School Grade: A
The public schools Lake Orion’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 91% of Michigan’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Michigan’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Michigan only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Michigan with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why 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.
Well above the state in reading
96% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #68 of 536 MI towns →
The district serving Lake Orion
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Lake Orion
There’s no college in Lake Orion, but 20 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Oakland University in Auburn Hills, 7.7 miles away.
10 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Lake Orion. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
We don’t have any schools located in Lake Orion yet.