Michigan Academic State Champs

Dearborn schools dominate many of the champs lists, as Bridge Magazine recognizes winners at schools from Grand Rapids to Detroit and the Upper Peninsula

Take a bow. Here are the most successful high schools in Michigan at sending graduates to college, broken down into four categories. Did your school make the list?

Use this database to search for your Michigan high school and see how it compares in sending graduates to college to others nearby and of similar economic means.

This year, Bridge honors school districts where students grow the most from third to eighth grade. The new measure comes from groundbreaking research that tips conventional wisdom on its head.

Use this database to search growth from third to eighth grades, and compare districts compare with their neighbors and ones with similar socioeconomics statewide in Michigan.

Use this slideshow to see where students in school districts with more than 4,000 students grew the most from third to eighth grade

Use this slideshow to see where students in school districts with 1,300 to 4,000 students grew the most from third to eighth grade

Use this slideshow to see where students in school districts with less than 1,300 students grew the most from third to eighth grade.