Town Chart.

← All rankings · All towns in Michigan

Towns with the best schools in Michigan

Ranked by our Schools score out of 100, which is based on how many high-school students take AP, IB or college classes, how many students miss a lot of school, the graduation rate and class size, for the public schools in the town. Of the 326 towns in Michigan with 1,000 or more people, these are the top 25.

Fowler ranks first with a score of 69. Birmingham and Armada follow, with 69 and 68. Scores compare each town with all 27,850 towns we track across the US.

RankTownScore High-school students in AP or IB classesHigh-school students taking college classes Population
1 Fowler 69 4.3%30.4% 1,387
2 Birmingham 69 41.4%1.1% 21,763
3 Armada 68 27.3%20.7% 1,994
4 Beverly Hills 67 36.9%2.0% 10,524
5 Frankenmuth 66 20.4%3.6% 5,157
6 Dexter 65 42.4%7.6% 4,521
7 Midland 64 40.4%2.4% 42,724
8 Kingsford 63 9.3%16.2% 5,124
9 Saline 63 34.2%0.2% 9,006
10 Bridgman 63 29.8%10.5% 2,077
11 Manchester 63 23.2%15.7% 2,522
12 Spring Lake 62 31.0%8.5% 2,519
13 Allendale 62 17.5%7.1% 26,679
14 Northville 62 43.0%0.1% 6,069
15 Coopersville 61 10.3%9.0% 4,848
16 Bloomfield Hills 61 58.0%0.5% 4,415
17 Rochester Hills 61 47.6%0.6% 77,089
18 Trenton 61 25.6%1.0% 18,125
19 Otsego 61 20.9%4.5% 4,074
20 Novi 61 62.6%2.4% 66,717
21 Temperance 60 19.5%4.9% 8,914
22 Stevensville 60 22.1%20.1% 1,095
23 Dundee 60 23.4%23.4% 5,744
24 Jenison 60 23.8%3.9% 17,582
25 Houghton 59 25.3%6.9% 8,474

This is not a test-score ranking, and graduation rates are from 2018 or 2019. Only towns with a high school of their own are listed, and a town does not show up when its students go to school elsewhere. Only towns with 1,000 or more people are ranked. Scores compare each town with all towns we track. See how we score towns and where the figures come from. These are estimates, so check official sources before you decide.

More rankings for Michigan

Towns with the best schools in other states

Link to this page

Copy this HTML to link to this page from your own site.