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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Crestwood Elementary School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
469
Elementary
DISTRICT 337 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 263003006585
Crestwood Elementary School
6350 COURTLAND DR NE, ROCKFORD, MI 49341 · (616) 863-6346 · Kent County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Michigan public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
58 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 156 | 33% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (156) is 117% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
76.0%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
74.0%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
75.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.8%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Michigan's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Crestwood Elementary School
Crestwood Elementary School's state test result (75.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crestwood Elementary School this school | 469 | 12.4% | 75.7% |
| Independence Elementary School CLARKSTON | 446 | 11.4% | 68.6% |
| Alward Elementary School HUDSONVILLE | 435 | 12.6% | 66.3% |
| Murray Lake Elementary LOWELL | 433 | 13.9% | 69.8% |
| Georgetown Elementary School HUDSONVILLE | 450 | 11.3% | 66.8% |
| South Meadows Elementary School CHELSEA | 476 | 15.5% | 56.7% |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Crestwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Kent County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #31 of 1,085 | #12 of 79 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #56 of 1,072 | #16 of 79 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #32 of 1,139 | #11 of 82 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #373 of 1,630 | #23 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #957 of 1,424 | #67 of 105 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.9% | #1,012 of 1,424 | #93 of 105 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.4% | #1,485 of 1,563 | #105 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #914 of 979 | #77 of 80 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
469
-15 (-3%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 446
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 469 | 27.7 | 17.0:1 | 12% (58) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 29.4 | 15.9:1 | 14% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 510 | 32.7 | 15.6:1 | 13% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 484 | 28 | 17.3:1 | 15% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 26.8 | 17.9:1 | 12% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 24 | 19.3:1 | 10% (48) |
| 2010-11 | 441 | 20 | 22.1:1 | 12% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 460 | 23 | 20.0:1 | 2% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 446 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crestwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (478 to 469); teachers up 3% (26.8 to 27.7).
About Crestwood Elementary School
Crestwood Elementary School, located in ROCKFORD, Michigan, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school counted 469 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 27% bigger than the 369-student average for elementary schools in Michigan.
Crestwood Elementary School falls under Rockford Public Schools, which has 15 schools enrolling 7,440 students.
Of every 100 students at Crestwood Elementary School, about 87 are White. The school is also 7% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. That is higher than the 73% White share among all Kent County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 23%.
The school's 27.7 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1. Elementary schools in Michigan average 15.8:1, 1.1 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 12% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Kent County average 47%.
Among Michigan public elementary schools, Crestwood Elementary School outscored 96%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Crestwood Elementary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 14.9 points (75.7% versus 60.8%), a top-10% result in Michigan on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Kent County, median household income comes to about $82,631, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 239 public schools and about 97,253 students.
Rockford HS Freshman Center is about 1.1 miles from Crestwood Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Crestwood Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
The school's student count decreased 3% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Crestwood Elementary School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Kent County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
663,150
Census ACS
Median income
$82,631
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
239
97,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockford Public Schools
- Rockford High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- North Rockford Middle SchoolMiddle · 908 students
- East Rockford Middle SchoolMiddle · 788 students
- Rockford HS Freshman CenterHigh · 584 students
- Edgerton Trails ElementaryElementary · 454 students
- Lakes Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
Other schools in ROCKFORD
- Rockford High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- North Rockford Middle SchoolMiddle · 908 students
- East Rockford Middle SchoolMiddle · 788 students
- Rockford HS Freshman CenterHigh · 584 students
- Edgerton Trails ElementaryElementary · 454 students
- Lakes Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
Other Crestwood Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 13 states are named Crestwood Elementary. Crestwood Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 15.
- CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 731 students
- Crestwood ElementaryRichmond, VA · 635 students
- Crestwood ElementaryVisalia, CA · 594 students
- Crestwood ElementarySpringfield, VA · 582 students
- Crestwood Elementary SchoolLas Vegas, NV · 551 students
Nearby schools
- Rockford HS Freshman Center1.1 mi · 584
- Rockford High School1.2 mi · 1,750
- Roguewood Elementary School1.5 mi · 283
- Rockford Spanish Immersion1.5 mi · 307
- Northview Next Learning Center2.2 mi · 136
- Meadow Ridge Elementary School2.3 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About Crestwood Elementary SchoolHow large is Crestwood Elementary School?
Crestwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 469 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Crestwood Elementary School serve?
Crestwood Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Crestwood Elementary School?
Approximately 17.0:1 students per teacher at Crestwood Elementary School.
How diverse is Crestwood Elementary School?
Crestwood Elementary School reports a student body of 87% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Crestwood Elementary School public or private?
Crestwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rockford Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.