Cesar E Chavez Elementary

Cesar E Chavez Elementary, located in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, is a medium-sized elementary school. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 437 students enrolled.

Grand Rapids Public Schools is the local district for Cesar E Chavez Elementary. It runs 50 schools with 13,903 students.

Hispanic students are the majority at Cesar E Chavez Elementary, with 78% of enrollment. The school is also 18% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 12%. The school's diversity index is 35%, meaning two students picked at random have a 35% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

At Cesar E Chavez Elementary, 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 16.9:1. That is higher than the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. Roughly 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 47% average for public schools in Kent County is 38 points.

In Kent County (population about 663,150), the median household income is $82,631, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 239 public schools in Kent County, enrolling about 97,253 students in all.

The school nearest to Cesar E Chavez Elementary is Southwest Elementary Academia Bilingue, at a distance of about 0.6 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment grew 10% from its 2020-21 level of 399.

The Cesar E Chavez Elementary community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.