Great Lakes Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in HOLLAND, Michigan, Great Lakes Elementary School instructs 426 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by West Ottawa Public School District.

West Ottawa Public School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,729 students; Great Lakes Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Great Lakes Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% White, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, Great Lakes Elementary School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ottawa County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Great Lakes Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 30.8%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ottawa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,502 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Ottawa County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), Great Lakes Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Dunes Alternative High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Great Lakes Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.6%.

Great Lakes Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 506 students in 2018 compared to 426 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 13% to 8%. Class-load math has widened: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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