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If you could change one rule at Glenwood Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
543
Elementary
DISTRICT 443 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KENTWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 262034005715
Glenwood Elementary
912 SILVERLEAF ST SE, GRAND RAPIDS, MI 49508 · (616) 455-2510 · Kent County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL543 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of Michigan public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
18.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
419 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 55%
Community
5
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 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
48.9%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
43.5%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.1%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 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 Glenwood Elementary
Glenwood Elementary's state test result (36.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Elementary this school | 543 | 77.2% | 36.1% |
| Challenger Elementary GRAND RAPIDS | 413 | 80.1% | 38.7% |
| Discovery Elementary GRAND RAPIDS | 674 | 72.0% | 38.6% |
| South Pointe Scholars Charter Academy YPSILANTI | 631 | 74.3% | 27.1% |
| Brookwood Elementary GRAND RAPIDS | 370 | 76.2% | 34.6% |
| Endeavor Charter Academy BATTLE CREEK | 648 | 81.5% | 28.8% |
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 Glenwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Kent County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #808 of 1,085 | #66 of 79 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #593 of 1,072 | #54 of 79 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.9% | #519 of 1,139 | #48 of 82 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 543 | #182 of 1,630 | #13 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #1,144 of 1,424 | #79 of 105 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.8% | #21 of 1,424 | #7 of 105 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.2% | #407 of 1,563 | #37 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +61.6% | #16 of 440 | #2 of 22 |
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
543
+159 (+41%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 505
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 19.2:1
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 | 543 | 30.2 | 18.0:1 | 77% (419) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 26.8 | 17.4:1 | 81% (379) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 25.8 | 15.7:1 | 84% (343) |
| 2020-21 | 384 | 20 | 19.2:1 | 82% (316) |
| 2017-18 | 336 | 19.1 | 17.6:1 | 87% (292) |
| 2015-16 | 314 | 17 | 18.5:1 | 79% (249) |
| 2010-11 | 346 | 17 | 20.4:1 | 70% (241) |
| 2000-01 | 410 | 20 | 20.5:1 | 33% (134) |
| 1990-91 | 505 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glenwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 62% (336 to 543); teachers up 58% (19.1 to 30.2).
About Glenwood Elementary
Glenwood Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Kentwood Public Schools, located in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. It educates 543 students in kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Michigan is about 369 students.
Kentwood Public Schools (16 schools, 9,536 students) runs Glenwood Elementary.
The most common group at Glenwood Elementary is Black students, at 38%. Other groups include 23% White, 22% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 8% multiracial. The county population is about 10% Black. Glenwood Elementary's diversity index is 74%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1 at Glenwood Elementary, with 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.1 above the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 77%. Among public schools in Kent County, the average eligibility rate is 47%.
allk12 grades Glenwood Elementary a C+. The grade compares the school only with Michigan public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 36.1%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 32.1%.
Within Kent County, the median household income is $82,631, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Besides Glenwood Elementary, Kent County has 238 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Grand River Preparatory High School, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Glenwood Elementary ranks 3rd of 5 on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Glenwood Elementary is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Glenwood Elementary reported 384 students in 2020-21 and 543 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.0:1) than in 2020-21 (19.2:1).
The Glenwood Elementary community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Kent County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
663,150
Census ACS
Median income
$82,631
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
239
97,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kentwood Public Schools
- East Kentwood High SchoolHigh · 2,068 students
- Pinewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 842 students
- East Kentwood Freshman CampusHigh · 742 students
- Crestwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 700 students
- Discovery ElementaryElementary · 674 students
- Explorer ElementaryElementary · 556 students
Other schools in GRAND RAPIDS
- East Kentwood High SchoolHigh · 2,068 students
- Northern High SchoolHigh · 1,088 students
- PrepNet Virtual AcademyCombined · 1,080 students
- Northview High SchoolHigh · 1,078 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 999 students
- City High Middle SchoolHigh · 955 students
Other Glenwood Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 16 states are named Glenwood Elementary. Glenwood Elementary is the 6th largest of the 23.
- Glenwood ElementaryVirginia Beach, VA · 896 students
- Glenwood ElementaryLake Stevens, WA · 641 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolMedia, PA · 586 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolWaukegan, IL · 577 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolChatham, IL · 573 students
Nearby schools
- Grand River Preparatory High School0.8 mi · 635
- Brookwood Elementary0.8 mi · 370
- Valleywood Middle School0.9 mi · 541
- Southeast Kelloggsville School1.0 mi · 287
- Meadowlawn Elementary1.0 mi · 339
- Kelloggsville Virtual School1.1 mi · 61
Frequently asked questions
About Glenwood ElementaryHow large is Glenwood Elementary?
Glenwood Elementary enrolls approximately 543 students in grades KG-05.
Is Glenwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Glenwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Glenwood Elementary?
Approximately 18.0:1 students per teacher at Glenwood Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Glenwood Elementary?
At Glenwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 23% White, 22% Hispanic, 38% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Glenwood Elementary in?
Glenwood Elementary is part of Kentwood Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.