Eagle Crest Charter Academy

As a heavily attended primary school in HOLLAND, Michigan, Eagle Crest Charter Academy serves 561 students from grades K through 8, operated by Eagle Crest Charter Academy. Enrollment runs roughly 52% larger than the state mean of about 369.

Operationally, Eagle Crest Charter Academy answers to Eagle Crest Charter Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eagle Crest Charter Academy shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% White, 15% Asian, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Eagle Crest Charter Academy logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Ottawa County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eagle Crest Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of +11.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Ottawa County put the typical household earns roughly $90,502 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Ottawa County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), of which Eagle Crest Charter Academy is one.

Felch Street Building is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eagle Crest Charter Academy. On composite proficiency, Eagle Crest Charter Academy comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 729 students in 2018 compared to 561 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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