Grandville Century Park Learning Center

As a mid-sized primary school in WYOMING, Michigan, Grandville Century Park Learning Center teaches 411 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Grandville Public Schools.

Grandville Public Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,512 students; Grandville Century Park Learning Center is among them.

On the student-mix side, Grandville Century Park Learning Center shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Kent County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grandville Century Park Learning Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Grandville Century Park Learning Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Grandville Middle School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grandville Century Park Learning Center comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Grandville Century Park Learning Center's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 541 (now 411).

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