Kalamazoo Central High School

As a high-enrollment four-year high school in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, Kalamazoo Central High School caters to 1,613 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Kalamazoo Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 251% bigger than the state mean of about 460.

Kalamazoo Public Schools runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 12,227 students. Kalamazoo Central High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Kalamazoo Central High School records that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 32% White, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Kalamazoo County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Kalamazoo Central High School reports 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at Kalamazoo Central High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kalamazoo County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kalamazoo County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,532 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Kalamazoo County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students), Kalamazoo Central High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Indian Prairie Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 1,722 students in 2018 compared to 1,613 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 in 2025.

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