Glenwood Elementary

Glenwood Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, one of the schools within Kentwood Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 543 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 47% above typical.

Within Kentwood Public Schools, which oversees 16 schools and 9,536 students, Glenwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Glenwood Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 23% White, 22% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Glenwood Elementary records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Glenwood Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Glenwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Glenwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grand River Preparatory High School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glenwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Glenwood Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

Glenwood Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glenwood Elementary has edged up 62%, going from 336 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 15% to 9%.

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