Our Districts at a Glance allows users to view K-12 and postsecondary data for school districts by Michigan legislative district. It gathers metrics found in reports on MI School Data.
The report is updated in early spring. See the Recently Posted Reports page for when the report was last updated.
Our Districts at a Glance has capabilities to allow the user to select a legislative district they are interested in, and then view K-12 and postsecondary data for the school districts comprising the selected legislative district.
Choosing Your Legislative District
Searching for a legislative district by school district, city, or county:
- In the Filter Type Selection menu, click the arrow to open a list of options for how to view legislative districts. The options are to view legislative districts by school district, city, or county.
- In the Filter menu, click the arrow to open a list of filter choices based on the selected view option. In the search box, type the desired filter choice based on the selected view option.
- Click anywhere in the row displaying your desired legislative district to select the district. The map will update to display the geographic boundary of the legislative district. Small districts may not appear.
- Click the View Data button below the table to navigate to the page displaying data for the selected legislative district.
- Use the eraser symbol above the second menu to clear location selections. Hover over the Location menu to view the eraser symbol.
- Delete text in the search bar for a complete location list to reappear.
- To reset all selections made on the Legislative District Search page, click on the reset selection button.
Sorting Your data
Sort any tables in ascending or descending order by clicking on the column header you are interested in sorting. Blank values, if any exist, will appear at the top of the table when sorting in ascending order.
Viewing Your Data
Once on the page displaying information for a selected legislative district, use the tabs to switch between viewing K-12 and postsecondary metrics. Use the back button in the top right of the page to return to the district search page where you can select a different legislative district.
K-12 Metrics:
- K-12 metrics are displayed for school districts intersecting the selected legislative district.
- Only school district aggregates are displayed in the data table.
Postsecondary Metrics:
- Postsecondary metrics are displayed for school districts intersecting the selected legislative district.
- School district aggregates and school district breakdowns are displayed in the data table. To view school district breakdowns, click the plus next to the school district name in the data table.
- The school district aggregate row will always display total school district information. Rows containing data aggregated for statewide or by college level are highlighted in yellow. Filter options may influence whether a school district appears, however. For example, if filtering to a specific college/university, only the school districts with enrollment to that college/university in the last 12 months will be shown.
Filtering Your data
K-12 Metrics:
- Use the school district menu to filter the K-12 data table to a selection of types of school districts or specific school districts. Click the box next to the desired school district type to filter by school district type. Click the arrow next to the school district type to view individual school districts. Click one or more boxes for individual school districts to filter to specific school districts.
Postsecondary Metrics:
- Use the school district menu to filter the K-12 data table to a selection of types of school districts or specific school districts. Click the box next to the desired school district type to filter by school district type. Click the arrow next to the school district type to view individual school districts. Click one or more boxes for individual school districts to filter to specific school districts.
- Use the view menu to select how to view district postsecondary metrics. Viewing by college type shows district data aggregated to all community colleges and 4-year college and universities. Viewing by college/university shows district data for individual in-state institutions and aggregated out-of-state postsecondary institutions. Both can be viewed at the same time by pressing control and clicking the unselected option.
- The metrics menu can be used to control which types of metrics are displayed. Click the boxes next to the metric types you are interested in seeing.
- The metric type menu is used to control whether data is viewed as counts or percentages. Counts and percentages can be viewed together by pressing control and clicking the unselected option. Please note that there is no high school graduation data offered in the percentage view.
- Use the college level and college type menu to filter district breakdown data by college level and independent or public postsecondary institutions. When viewing district breakdowns by college types only aggregations of public and private institutions are available.
- Use the College/University menu to filter district breakdowns to specific postsecondary institutions. When viewing by college type, the only filter options are the aggregates for community college or 4-year colleges and universities. When viewing by college/university individual postsecondary institutions become available.
To reset filters on either K-12 or postsecondary data tables, click on the small eraser icon within the box for each respective metric, or press the "Reset Selections" button within the report. However, note that this button will reset ALL filter selections, so only utilize it if you wish to return to the default view/selections.
Downloading Your Data
After making the selections of interest, it is possible to download the data table created for further use. To initiate this process, take the following steps:
- Hovering over the data table will make an ellipses icon appears just above the upper right corner of the table.
- Click on the ellipses and proceed to the "Export data" option.
- Upon clicking, a popup titled "Which data do you want to export?" will appear. No changes to the selection are necessary (the default is "Data with current layout").
- Hit the export button located at the bottom right corner.
The export function has a row limit of 150,000 rows and will save the data as a .xlsx file. Depending on the size of the table, it may take a few moments for the download to complete, after which the file should appear in the downloads.
To please refer to the About the Data for this report for greater insight into the data fields included.
Our Districts at a Glance contains a variety of metrics from various MI School Data reports in one place, aimed at providing a holistic picture of the school districts which comprise a legislative district. The relationships between school districts and legislative districts are determined by the geographic overlap of the districts. This means that it is possible for a single school district to be a part of multiple legislative districts of the same kind.
The K-12 metrics included represent a wide range of subject areas. The postsecondary metrics included display a variety of metrics for recent Michigan high school graduates.
Users can explore further by visiting the reports listed below, and learn details about the data, historical changes and more in the About This Report feature in each report.
K-12 Data
College Enrollment by High School – College and university enrollment data for Michigan high school graduates.
Budget Transparency – Detailed breakdown of a district’s financial outlay.
Financial Transparency Dashboard – Metrics showing district financial performance.
Foundation Allowance – Per-pupil funding for school districts.
Graduation/Dropout Rate – Graduation and dropout data for high school students.
Student Enrollment Counts Report – Student head count data.
Postsecondary Data
College Enrollment by High School – College and university enrollment data for Michigan high school graduates.
College Enrollment Destination – Detailed college and university enrollment data for Michigan high school graduates.
College Progression by Graduating Class – Data on how Michigan high school graduates are progressing is postsecondary education.
College Remedial Coursework – High school graduates taking remedial coursework in college.
On-Track College Progress – Data on the timeline for Michigan high school graduates to earn 24 college credits.
Report Labels
See the glossary for additional terms and acronyms used on MI School Data.
Disclosure Avoidance
To protect the privacy of individual students, CEPI applies data suppression rules to sensitive data when report settings would yield fewer than 10 students in a given group. Complementary groups may also be suppressed. In some cases, values less than 10 may be shown when there is no risk of identifying individual students. Secure users can log in to view unsuppressed data for their authorized location. Please see How CEPI Protects Education Data for more information.