East Oakview Elementary School

East Oakview Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, part of Northview Public Schools. The school teaches 371 students in grades K through 4.

Within Northview Public Schools, which oversees 8 schools and 3,120 students, East Oakview Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, East Oakview Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. Compared to Kent County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting East Oakview Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 39% of students at East Oakview Elementary 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 meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, East Oakview Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Michigan public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.0%; East Oakview Elementary School posts 36.3%, -12.7 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Kent County runs 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), of which East Oakview Elementary School is one.

Northview High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts East Oakview Elementary School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 51.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. East Oakview Elementary School's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 385 (now 371). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 6% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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