Schools · Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights, MI schools
Sterling Heights’s public schools score well above Michigan’s averages: 53% of students are proficient in reading against 47.9% statewide, and 96% of high schoolers graduate on time against 82.9%. Kids attend one of 13 schools through grade 6, then Davis Junior High School or Bemis Junior High School or Frank Jeannette Jr High School and Adlai Stevenson High School or Henry Ford II High School or Joan C Sergent Instructional Resource Center.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
B+
Sterling Heights’s School Grade: B+
The public schools Sterling Heights’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 73% of Michigan’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
B+Test scoresAGraduation
Michigan school districts we grade (796)Better than 73%
Lower resultsHigher results
Michigan towns with similar household incomes (1,121)Better than 71%
High confidence. Built on 17,819 tested students and a graduating class of 2,262; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
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.
School path
Where Sterling Heights kids go to school
Grades 7–9
B+Davis Junior High School or A-Bemis Junior High School or C+Frank Jeannette Jr High School
Depends on your address Utica Community SchoolsGrades 10–12
BAdlai Stevenson High School or B+Henry Ford II High School or Joan C Sergent Instructional Resource Center
Depends on your address Utica Community SchoolsBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Utica Community)53%
State average 47.9%
Reading (Warren Consolidated)39%
State average 47.9%
Math (grades PK–12, Utica Community)38%
State average 34.6%
Math (Warren Consolidated)18%
State average 34.6%
Graduation · class of 2020
96% graduate on time
Graduation rate
96%
MI: 82.9%
Graduating class
2,262
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Two districts serve Sterling Heights
Utica Community SchoolsGrades PK–12 · 37 schools · 25,143 students
$15,140 per studentMI $16,528A-Warren Consolidated SchoolsGrades PK–12 · 23 schools · 12,338 students
$17,917 per studentMI $16,528B-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 35 schools in Sterling Heights
Showing 1–30 of 35 schools
Schuchard Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 602 students
C+PublicSchwarzkoff Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 597 students
B-PublicHavel Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 571 students
BPublicOakbrook Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 535 students
BPublicDekeyser Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 512 students
B+PublicGraebner Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 509 students
B-PublicHarwood Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 498 students
B-PublicBurr Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 490 students
C-PublicBlack Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 458 students
C-PublicPlumbrook Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 445 students
B-PublicJack Harvey Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 429 students
B-PublicBruce Collins Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 426 students
BPublicDresden Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 420 students
B-PublicJefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 408 students
CPublicBrowning Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 368 students
B+PublicWillow Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 362 students
C-PublicHolden Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 341 students
C-PublicMessmore Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 332 students
APublicNoor International AcademyElementary · Grades PK–6 · 186 students
BCharterMaple Lane SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 55 students
DPublicDavis Junior High SchoolMiddle · Grades 7–9 · 1,061 students
B+PublicBemis Junior High SchoolMiddle · Grades 7–8 · 742 students
A-PublicFrank Jeannette Jr High SchoolMiddle · Grades 7–9 · 716 students
C+PublicGrissom Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 703 students
CPublicCarleton Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 638 students
CPublicAdlai Stevenson High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,881 students
BPublicHenry Ford II High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,663 students
B+PublicSterling Heights Senior HSHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,262 students
C+PublicUCS Alternative Learning CenterHigh · Grades 9–12 · 245 students
DPublicWarren Consolidated Community High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 103 students
DPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.