Midland high schools fare well on CAP Report Card

Every standard public high school in Michigan is evaluated and graded in the “Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card” published by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland. The CAP Report Card examines public high school performance while taking into account family income, producing what the center calls an “apples-to-apples” comparison for parents and policymakers. “Education research consistently shows that socioeconomic factors have a significant impact on standardized test results,” said Michael Van Beek, the center’s director of education policy and a coauthor of the report card. “This is the first-of-its-kind attempt in Michigan to take this reality into account, and it helps us identify outstanding schools that by most measures would appear mediocre.”


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