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Central Kelloggsville Elementary
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Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Central Kelloggsville Elementary
Central Kelloggsville Elementary, a mid-tier elementary-level community in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, run under Kelloggsville Public Schools, instructs 494 students, covering grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 369.
Within Kelloggsville Public Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 2,259 students, Central Kelloggsville Elementary is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Central Kelloggsville Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 33% Black, 13% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.
On the resource side, Central Kelloggsville Elementary reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Central Kelloggsville Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Kent County's rate of about 47%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Central Kelloggsville Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.6%; this one delivers 23.3%.
In the area at large, census data for Kent County shows median household income runs about $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Kent County runs 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), of which Central Kelloggsville Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Kelloggsville Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Kelloggsville Elementary.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 38%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.
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