East Grand Rapids High School

East Grand Rapids High School operates as a high-enrollment high school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, one of the schools within East Grand Rapids Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 908 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 97% larger than the state mean of about 460.

East Grand Rapids Public Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,984 students; East Grand Rapids High School is among them.

Demographically, East Grand Rapids High School shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, East Grand Rapids High School records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting East Grand Rapids High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 6% of students at East Grand Rapids High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kent County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kent County indicate median household income runs about $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. East Grand Rapids High School is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Wealthy School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 1,010 students in 2018 compared to 908 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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