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Georgetown Elementary School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Georgetown Elementary School
Set in HUDSONVILLE, Michigan, Georgetown Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within Hudsonville Public School District. It works with 450 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 369.
Across the 12 schools in Hudsonville Public School District (6,654 students total), Georgetown Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Georgetown Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Asian. Compared to Ottawa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Georgetown Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Ottawa County's rate of about 34%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Georgetown Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of +5.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Ottawa County shows median household income runs about $90,502, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Ottawa County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), of which Georgetown Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Baldwin Street Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Georgetown Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Georgetown Elementary School's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 564 (now 450). The White share of enrollment shrank from 92% to 86% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.
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