Brown Elementary School

Brown Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in BYRON CENTER, Michigan, overseen by Byron Center Public Schools, with 438 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Across the 7 schools in Byron Center Public Schools (4,546 students total), Brown Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brown Elementary School shows that 75% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Brown Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Brown Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brown Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 58.1%; this one delivers 89.9%, a residual of +31.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kent County) reports that median household income runs about $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Brown Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Heritage Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brown Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 70.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 524 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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