Endeavor Elementary

Endeavor Elementary, an average-sized elementary campus in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, part of Kentwood Public Schools, instructs 553 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 50% above the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Kentwood Public Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 9,536 students. Endeavor Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Endeavor Elementary records that 36% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 23% White, 20% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 69% 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Endeavor Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kent County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Endeavor Elementary is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

The closest other public school is Dutton Elementary School, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Endeavor Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

Endeavor Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 553 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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