Grandville Cummings Elementary School

Located at 4261 SCHOOLCRAFT ST SW, in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Grandville Cummings Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school that educates 366 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under Grandville Public Schools.

Across the 11 schools in Grandville Public Schools (5,512 students total), Grandville Cummings Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Grandville Cummings Elementary School reports that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Kent County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Grandville Cummings Elementary School logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Grandville Cummings Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Grandville Cummings Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Across the wider county, Kent County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grandville Cummings Elementary School is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

West MI Academy of Environmental Science is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grandville Cummings Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 80% to 74%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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