Saline Schools Rank Among Best in Michigan

Saline Area Schools continue to rate high in state rankings.

Today, the Michigan Department of Education released the top-to-bottom rankings of all the state's public schools.

Five of Saline's six schools ranked at the 90th percentile or better (rankings below). The rankings are based on the Michigan Merit Exam and Michigan Educational Assessment Program.

Saline's high rankings have become par-for-the-course.

"Having an overwhelming majority of our schools in the 90th percentile certainly speaks to the extremely high quality of education that takes place in the Saline Area Schools," said Steve Laatsch, Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services for Saline Area Schools. "I attribute this to a multitude of important factors that include a very talented teaching staff, an extremely supportive parent base, and students who come to school ready to learn on a daily basis."

None of Saline's institutions were named "persistently lowest achieving schools." Those schools are required to submit an improvement plan to the state as part of the federal No Child Left Behind laws. 

Here's how Saline's schools fared in the rankings: