Dickinson Academy

As a modestly sized primary school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Dickinson Academy enrolls 224 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Grand Rapids Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 39% leaner than typical.

Grand Rapids Public Schools comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 13,903 students; Dickinson Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Dickinson Academy records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 39% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Dickinson Academy has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dickinson Academy is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Hope Academy of West Michigan is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dickinson Academy.

Dickinson Academy operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 294 students in 2018 compared to 224 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 38% to 51%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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