Enrollment
201
Elementary
DISTRICT 365 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANDVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 261647005377
Grandville Central Elementary School
4052 PRAIRIE ST SW, GRANDVILLE, MI 49418 · (616) 254-6012 · Kent County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL201 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% 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
13.1:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
67 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 76 | 38% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 27 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 21 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
70.5%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
75.0%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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
72.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% 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 21 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 Grandville Central Elementary School
Grandville Central Elementary School's state test result (72.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandville Central Elementary School this school | 201 | 33.3% | 72.3% |
| Blue Star Elementary School HOLLAND | 202 | 34.7% | 52.9% |
| Waterford Montessori Academy WATERFORD | 213 | 38.5% | N/A |
| Parkside Elementary School ROCKFORD | 179 | 32.4% | 63.7% |
| Waterford Montessori Academy WATERFORD | 188 | 38.8% | 65.3% |
| Robinson School GRAND HAVEN | 223 | 39.5% | 65.3% |
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 Grandville Central Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Kent County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #53 of 1,085 | #18 of 79 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #43 of 1,072 | #14 of 79 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #85 of 1,139 | #24 of 82 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 201 | #1,423 of 1,630 | #105 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #155 of 1,424 | #10 of 105 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.0% | #483 of 1,424 | #50 of 105 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.3% | #1,170 of 1,563 | #74 of 114 |
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
201
-32 (-14%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 384
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 201 | 15.4 | 13.1:1 | 33% (67) |
| 2023-24 | 228 | 17.2 | 13.3:1 | 39% (89) |
| 2022-23 | 239 | 17.1 | 14.0:1 | 42% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 233 | 15 | 15.5:1 | 46% (107) |
| 2017-18 | 188 | 12.2 | 15.4:1 | 54% (101) |
| 2015-16 | 192 | 11 | 17.4:1 | 49% (95) |
| 2010-11 | 210 | 13 | 16.1:1 | 48% (101) |
| 2000-01 | 250 | 14 | 17.9:1 | 28% (69) |
| 1990-91 | 384 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grandville Central Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (188 to 201); teachers up 25% (12.2 to 15.4).
About Grandville Central Elementary School
Grandville Central Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in GRANDVILLE, Michigan. Classes run from pre-K through 6, and the school has 201 students. Against the 369-student average for elementary schools in Michigan, enrollment here is 46% lower.
The district, Grandville Public Schools, has 5,512 students enrolled across 11 schools.
By race and ethnicity, Grandville Central Elementary School is 69% White. Other reported shares: 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 3% Black. The White share in Kent County as a whole is similar, at about 73%. By the diversity index, Grandville Central Elementary School comes in at 49%.
The school reports 15.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.1 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Michigan average 15.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 33% of students. The average for public schools in Kent County is 47%.
The allk12 Grade for Grandville Central Elementary School is A+. Compared with Michigan public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 96% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After accounting for student poverty, Grandville Central Elementary School is in the top 10% of Michigan schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 72.3% is 20.8 points above the 51.5% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
In Kent County (population about 663,150), median household income is about $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grandville Central Elementary School is one of 239 public schools in Kent County, which together enroll about 97,253 students.
The school nearest to Grandville Central Elementary School is Grandville Oakestown Intermediate School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Grandville Central Elementary School places 1st of 5 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The NCES locale for Grandville Central Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Grandville Central Elementary School saw enrollment fall 14% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.5:1 in 2020-21, and 13.1:1 in 2024-25.
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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
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Other schools in Grandville Public Schools
- Grandville High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Grandville Oakestown Intermediate SchoolElementary · 852 students
- Grandville Middle SchoolMiddle · 850 students
- Grandville Century Park Learning CenterElementary · 411 students
- Grandville Grand View Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
- Grandville Cummings Elementary SchoolElementary · 366 students
Other schools in GRANDVILLE
- Grandville High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Grandville Oakestown Intermediate SchoolElementary · 852 students
- Grandville Middle SchoolMiddle · 850 students
- Grandville South Elementary SchoolElementary · 287 students
- Grandville East Elementary SchoolElementary · 207 students
- Grandville West Elementary SchoolElementary · 191 students
Nearby schools
- Grandville Oakestown Intermediate School0.4 mi · 852
- Grandville West Elementary School0.7 mi · 191
- Grandville Education Center0.7 mi · 22
- Grandville East Elementary School0.8 mi · 207
- Grandville South Elementary School0.9 mi · 287
- Grandville High School1.8 mi · 1,719
Frequently asked questions
About Grandville Central Elementary SchoolHow large is Grandville Central Elementary School?
Grandville Central Elementary School enrolls approximately 201 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Grandville Central Elementary School serve?
Grandville Central Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Grandville Central Elementary School have?
Grandville Central Elementary School employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Grandville Central Elementary School?
Student demographics at Grandville Central Elementary School are roughly 69% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Grandville Central Elementary School in?
Grandville Central Elementary School is part of Grandville Public Schools.
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