District Annual Education Report
February 13, 2025
We are pleased to present you with the Annual Education Report (AER) which provides key information on the 2023-24 educational progress for Grand Haven Area Public Schools. The AER addresses the complex reporting information required by federal and some requirements of state laws. Our staff is available to help you understand this information. Please contact Mary Jane Evink in Instructional Services at (616) 850-5075 if you need assistance.
The DISTRICT AER is available for you to review electronically by visiting the following website - MI School Data, or you may review a copy in the main office at your child’s school. Each school will also be communicating their own AER to parents directly.
These reports contain the following information:
Student Assessment Data
- Includes the following three assessments: M-STEP (Michigan Student Test of EducationalProgress), MI-Access (Alternate Assessment) and College Board SAT
- Presents assessment information for English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 to8 and 11, and MI-Access science for grades 4, 7, and 11, compared to state averages for allstudents as well as subgroups of students
School Accountability Data
- Includes information on schools’ performance on various measures such as student proficiency and growth on state assessments, graduation, and attendance rates. Performance is measured on 0-100 index scales
- Reports schools identified under three federally required categories for further support: Comprehensive Support and Improvement, Targeted Support and Improvement, and Additional Targeted Support
Educator Qualification Data
- Identifies the number and percentage of inexperienced teachers, principals, and other school leaders
- Reports teachers who are teaching with emergency or provisional credentials
- Includes teachers who are not teaching in the subject or field for which they are certified
NAEP Data (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
- Provides state results of the national assessment in mathematics and reading every other year in grades 4 and 8
Civil Rights Data
- Provides information on school quality, climate and safety
Review the table below listing our schools. For the 2024-25 school year, schools were identified based on previous years’ performance using definitions and labels as required in the Every StudentSucceeds Act (ESSA). A Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) school is one that had at least one underperforming student subgroup in 2023-24. An Additional Targeted Support (ATS) school is one that had a student subgroup performing at the same level as the lowest 5% of all schools in the state in 2022-23. A Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) school is one whose performance was in the lowest 5% of all schools in the state or had a graduation rate at or below 67% in 2022-23. Some schools are not identified with any of these labels. In these cases, no status label is given.
| School Name | Status | Key Initiative to Accelerate Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Career Development School | No label | Partnership with College Access Network |
| Central High School | No label | Cross-Curricular Communication Skills |
| Ferry Elementary/Voyager School | No label | Targeted Intervention/Professional Learning Community |
| Grand Haven Cyber School | No label | Cross-curricular communication skills |
| Grand Haven High School | No label | Tiered levels of support for students' needs |
| Griffin Elementary | No label | Collaboration/Professional Learning Community |
| Lake Hills Elementary | No label | Collaboration/Professional Learning Community |
| Lakeshore Middle School | No label | Collaboration/Professional Learning Community |
| Mary A. White Elementary | No label | Responsive Classrooms/Professional Learning Community |
| Peach Plains Elementary | No label | Collaboration/Professional Learning Community |
| Robinson Elementary | No label | Collaboration/Professional Learning Community |
| Rosy Mound Elementary | No label | MTSS/Professional Learning Community |
| White Pines Intermediate School | No label | Collaboration/Professional Learning Community |
We pride ourselves in providing a comprehensive educational experience. In addition to our core academic programs, we offer a variety of extracurricular and specialty programs to extend and enhance every child’s education. Grand Haven is a community where residents have demonstrated a strong commitment to education and have provided valuable support for our programs, allowing students and the district to prosper.
We welcome the opportunity to share in your child’s education. Grand Haven Area Public Schools will continue to work daily to ensure "Success for All."
Sincerely,
Kristin Perkowski
Superintendent of Schools
Grand Haven Area Public Schools