Our students average score on the ACT Composite is 26. The State of Michigan average ACT Composite is 19.7.
This means that our students score on average in the top 16% nationwide.
- ACT average Math 26
- ACT average Science 26.8
For more information on the ACT Exam visit How Colleges Use ACT Scores.
- Each year graduates are offered an average of $35,000 in scholarships.
- Over 90% of our students say that they feel they are prepared for success in college.
- Over 90% of our parent population say that they have seen improvement in their child's motivation and effort in school.
Highlights of MA2S include: Four-year student-designed research program; Alternative fuels project – Square One Education Network; widely recognized FIRST Robotics Team - The Fighting Pi Team 1718; All classes honors-level; Creative thinking throughout the curriculum; Technology as a tool for learning; Hands-on interactive, interdisciplinary learning; Opportunities for independent study; and a unique blend of students from across districts. Click on the Video below for a look inside the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The student selection process is based on the following criteria:
- Academic record
- Performance on mathematics and science achievement tests
- Writing sample
Instruction at the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences focuses on accelerated content skills. The capacity to think creatively, make decisions, solve problems, see possibilities, learn how to learn and to reason are developed as students mature.
Personal qualities, or Habits
of Mind, are encouraged and developed as well. They include
responsibility, thinking flexibly, persisting, striving for accuracy,
integrity and honesty and
remaining open to continuous learning,
among others.
Basic skills, thinking skills and personal qualities have been designated
as desirable characteristics in the workplace by the Secretary's Commission
on Achieving Necessary Skills: A
SCANS Report
for America 2000, U.S. Department of Labor.
