Did You Know!!!

- Over the past ten years, academic and educational metrics for the Pontiac School District, as reflected in State Index Scores, have shown no upward trajectory, leaving the district positioned within the lowest 10% of all districts statewide. - Despite operating on one of the largest per-student budget among all districts in Oakland County, the Pontiac School District has seen its academic and educational metrics hold flat with know measurable approvements. - Among Metropolitan School Districts, Pontiac records the most attrition of its students. Roughly 70% of Pontiac's enrolled students leave the district, with Detroit following at 63%. - According to a review carried out by the Touchpointe team, the district earned a failing grade for its delivery of athletics and student activities. It included low participation numbers and low performance. - A strategic plan released and approved by the district received a failing mark for its lack of defined initiatives, weak community engagement, and absence of measurable deliverables, with the document itself characterized as broad and unspecific. Reports indicate the district spent $130K on a consultant for this effort, while comparable long-term strategic planning engagements at other districts have typically ranged between $10K and $30K. The Pontiac 60 intends to ask how the planning process was structured and why no quantifiable metric goals were included. - For 2025/2026, the district approved a budget projecting $118M in revenue against $117M in expenditures, yielding a $560K surplus. By December, that figure had been revised downward to $100M in revenue and $104M in expenses, producing a $3.3M deficit. While the revised document explains the drop, it raises the question of why these factors were not addressed in the initial budget, and several board members questioned on the matter appeared unfamiliar with the situation. - Back in May 2025, several problems with the district's athletics website were flagged for its attention, including an outdated link from the former AD and Superintendent dating back at least four years and tied to covid-era content, as well as schedules still showing games from two years prior. Following repeated follow-ups throughout the year, the district produced no edits whatsoever. Members of our executive team observed that the corrections would have required only about five minutes, - Pontiac's school board ranks as the highest-compensated in the state outside of Detroit, even though Detroit serves 47,000 students compared to Pontiac's 3,600. Compensation for Pontiac board members falls between $14K and $19K each, calculated at $200 per meeting, whereas most boards elsewhere receive stipends averaging around $2K annually.