Cedar Trails Elementary School

Located at 204 E MUSKEGON ST, in CEDAR SPRINGS, Michigan, Cedar Trails Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus that serves 431 students (grades pre-K through 1), part of Cedar Springs Public Schools.

Across the 7 schools in Cedar Springs Public Schools (3,211 students total), Cedar Trails Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Cedar Trails Elementary School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kent County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Cedar Trails Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cedar View Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools.

Cedar Trails Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 548 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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