Crossroads Charter Academy

Located at 215 SPRUCE ST W, in BIG RAPIDS, Michigan, Crossroads Charter Academy is a compact K-12 campus that teaches 117 students (grades K through 12), one of the schools within Crossroads Charter Academy. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 281 students each, so Crossroads Charter Academy sits 58% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Crossroads Charter Academy (220 students total), Crossroads Charter Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Crossroads Charter Academy shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Crossroads Charter Academy lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, census data for Mecosta County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,951 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Mecosta County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,219 students), Crossroads Charter Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crossroads Charter Academy K5, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site. Crossroads Charter Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 57%: 270 students in 2018 compared to 117 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 90% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.