Godwin Heights Middle School

Godwin Heights Middle School operates as an intimate junior high in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, run under Godwin Heights Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 382 students spanning grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Godwin Heights Middle School sits 24% below that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Godwin Heights Public Schools (1,928 students total), Godwin Heights Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Godwin Heights Middle School records that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 19% Black, 12% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Godwin Heights Middle School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Godwin Heights Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Kent County's rate of about 47%.

In the broader community, census data for Kent County shows median household earnings sit near $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Godwin Heights Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Godwin Heights Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 39%: 627 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 53% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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