Cedar View Elementary School

Cedar View Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in CEDAR SPRINGS, Michigan, operated by Cedar Springs Public Schools, with 466 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 5. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Within Cedar Springs Public Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 3,211 students, Cedar View Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Cedar View Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder is composed of 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Cedar View Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cedar View Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 43.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kent County) logs that median household income runs about $82,631, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cedar View Elementary School is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Cedar Trails Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar View Elementary School has ticked down 10%, going from 519 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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