Mattawan Consolidated School school district ranks 43rd highest statewide for college readiness in 2023-24 school year

Mattawan Consolidated School school district ranks 43rd highest statewide for college readiness in 2023-24 school year
Dr. Michael F. Rice Michigan superintendent of public instruction — https://radio.wcmu.org/
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Mattawan Consolidated School school district ranked the 43rd highest in college readiness statewide, based on its students’ performance on the 2023-24 SAT, according to the MI School Data.

Scores show that 45% of the 278 students assessed in the district were set for college at the time.

In the previous school year, 50.4% of 252 students tested hit the benchmarks.

Mattawan Consolidated School school district reported that 45.7% of their students were proficient in the math section of the SAT, while 76.6% fared well in the evidence-based reading and writing portion.

Academic performance in Michigan remains below pre-pandemic levels. According to the 2024 NAEP results, the share of students reaching the basic benchmark in core subjects is about 10 percentage points lower than in 2019—except for fourth-grade math, which saw a decline of just 2 points.

Achievement gaps between ethnic groups also persist. On average, Hispanic students scored 15 points below white students. The gap was even wider for Black students, who scored about 30 points lower than their white peers.

Mattawan Consolidated School College Readiness Over 4 Years
Van Buren County Districts Ranked by College Readiness in 2023-24 School Year
Rank District College Readiness
1 Mattawan Consolidated School 45%
2 Paw Paw Public School District 20.7%
3 Gobles Public School District 15.2%
4 Hartford Public Schools 14.2%
5 Lawton Community School District 12.1%
6 Bloomingdale Public School District 10.6%
7 South Haven Public Schools 7.6%


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