Covenant High School Grand Rapids
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Covenant High School Grand Rapids, a small high school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, part of Covenant High School Grand Rapids, enrolls 218 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so Covenant High School Grand Rapids sits 53% smaller than that benchmark.
Operationally, Covenant High School Grand Rapids answers to Covenant High School Grand Rapids, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
Looking at the student body, Covenant High School Grand Rapids reports that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 36% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Covenant High School Grand Rapids qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Kent County's rate of about 47%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kent County put the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Covenant High School Grand Rapids is one campus in the mix.
Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Covenant High School Grand Rapids.
The campus sits in a city-core setting. Covenant High School Grand Rapids is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Covenant High School Grand Rapids has ticked down 37%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 218 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 63% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 38.2:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.
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