East Leonard Elementary

Federal records list East Leonard Elementary as an elementary school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. The school serves 174 students in pre-K through 5 in 2023-24. For comparison, elementary schools in Michigan average about 369 students.

Grand Rapids Public Schools is responsible for 50 schools, East Leonard Elementary included, with 13,903 students in all.

At East Leonard Elementary, Black students make up 59% of the student body. Next come 22% Hispanic, 11% White, and 7% multiracial. The county population is about 10% Black. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school reports 7.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.2 students per teacher. That is 2.7 students per teacher below the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 96% of students. Among public schools in Kent County, the average eligibility rate is 47%.

Kent County census figures show that the median household income is $82,631, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 239 public schools in Kent County, enrolling about 97,253 students in all.

The next-closest public school is Bethany Based School, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.

Compared with 2017-18, when it had 178 students, enrollment in 2023-24 was about the same at 174. Over the same years, the Black share increased from 45% to 59%. The number of students per teacher rose from 12.8 to 23.5 over 6 years.

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