Enrollment
254
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUDSONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 261884005561
Forest Grove Elementary School
1645 32ND AVE, HUDSONVILLE, MI 49426 · (616) 896-9429 · Ottawa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL254 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of Michigan public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
59 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 55%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 23% larger than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 56% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Hudsonville Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
66.7%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
81.0%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.0%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Michigan's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Forest Grove Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Grove Elementary School this school | 254 | 23.2% | 78.8% |
| James C Harvey Education Center MASON | 252 | 22.6% | N/A |
| Shay Elementary School HARBOR SPGS | 258 | 23.3% | 44.2% |
| Rosy Mound School GRAND HAVEN | 243 | 19.8% | 81.4% |
| Mill Creek Academy WILLIAMSBURG | 233 | 24.5% | N/A |
| Freeland Learning Center FREELAND | 295 | 25.1% | N/A |
Matched among Michigan elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Forest Grove Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Ottawa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #17 of 1,085 | #4 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #15 of 1,072 | #3 of 47 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #127 of 1,139 | #14 of 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 254 | #1,264 of 1,630 | #46 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #351 of 1,424 | #31 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.3% | #906 of 1,424 | #40 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.2% | #1,335 of 1,563 | #37 of 54 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #247 of 979 | #16 of 38 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
254
-19 (-7%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 205
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 254 | 17.6 | 14.4:1 | 23% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 243 | 17.1 | 14.2:1 | 33% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 263 | 16.7 | 15.8:1 | 24% (63) |
| 2020-21 | 273 | 20 | 13.7:1 | 26% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 316 | 16.3 | 19.4:1 | 27% (85) |
| 2015-16 | 306 | 15 | 20.4:1 | 18% (54) |
| 2010-11 | 259 | 14 | 18.5:1 | 20% (53) |
| 2000-01 | 177 | 10 | 17.7:1 | 5% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 205 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Grove Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (316 to 254); teachers up 8% (16.3 to 17.6).
About Forest Grove Elementary School
Federal records list Forest Grove Elementary School as an elementary school in HUDSONVILLE, Michigan. The latest federal count shows 254 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Michigan is about 369 students, so this school is 31% smaller than average.
Hudsonville Public School District is made up of 12 schools with 6,654 students in all.
Forest Grove Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 85% White. It is also 7% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. For comparison, Ottawa County is about 84% White. Forest Grove Elementary School has a diversity index of 26%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Forest Grove Elementary School employs 17.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 14.4:1. That ratio is under the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 23% in 2024-25. That rate is below the 34% average among public schools in Ottawa County.
allk12 grades Forest Grove Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Michigan public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school in Michigan with Forest Grove Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 56.0%. Forest Grove Elementary School scores 78.8%.
Across Ottawa County, median household income is about $90,502, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The public schools of Ottawa County number 103 and enroll about 42,894.
Riley Street Middle School is the closest public school, about 2.2 miles away in a straight line. Forest Grove Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with 5 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 66.7%, lower than Forest Grove Elementary School's 78.8%.
The federal government classifies Forest Grove Elementary School's location as Rural: Fringe.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 7%, from 273 to 254.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Forest Grove Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Ottawa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
301,203
Census ACS
Median income
$90,502
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
42,894 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hudsonville Public School District
- Hudsonville High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Riley Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 688 students
- 56 Building at GeorgetownMiddle · 626 students
- Baldwin Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Georgetown Elementary SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Alward Elementary SchoolElementary · 435 students
Other schools in HUDSONVILLE
- Hudsonville High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Riley Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 688 students
- 56 Building at GeorgetownMiddle · 626 students
- Baldwin Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Georgetown Elementary SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Alward Elementary SchoolElementary · 435 students
Other Forest Grove Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Forest Grove Elementary. Forest Grove Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Forest Grove ElementarySterling, VA · 529 students
- Forest Grove ElementaryBettendorf, IA · 332 students
- Forest Grove ElementaryPacific Grove, CA · 324 students
Nearby schools
- Riley Street Middle School2.2 mi · 688
- Jamestown Upper Elementary School2.3 mi · 327
- Jamestown Lower Elementary School2.5 mi · 289
- South Elementary School4.2 mi · 391
- Hudsonville High School4.4 mi · 1,995
- Park Elemementary School5.0 mi · 260
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Grove Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Forest Grove Elementary School?
Forest Grove Elementary School enrolls approximately 254 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Forest Grove Elementary School serve?
Forest Grove Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Forest Grove Elementary School have?
Forest Grove Elementary School employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Forest Grove Elementary School?
Student demographics at Forest Grove Elementary School are roughly 85% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Forest Grove Elementary School public or private?
Forest Grove Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hudsonville Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.