DPSCD's reading scores: ahead of 91 percent of U.S. districts
DETROIT. Detroit's public school district is being held up as a national comeback story. Students in Detroit Public Schools Community District now gain an average of 1.21 grade levels a year, and their reading recovery ranks in the 88th percentile nationally, ahead of 91 percent of districts across the country.
The district is also the only one in Michigan among large districts to push chronic absenteeism below pre-pandemic levels, helped by more than 78,000 home visits over the summer of 2025. Superintendent Nikolai Vitti has run the district since 2017, and researchers from Harvard and Stanford picked Detroit for a national case study on the recovery.
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