Kalamazoo Innovative Learning Program

As a very small secondary school in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, Kalamazoo Innovative Learning Program caters to 137 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Kalamazoo Public Schools. That puts it 70% leaner than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 460 students.

Across the 26 schools in Kalamazoo Public Schools (12,227 students total), Kalamazoo Innovative Learning Program accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Kalamazoo Innovative Learning Program logs that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 23% White, 18% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Kalamazoo County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 34.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at Kalamazoo Innovative Learning Program qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kalamazoo County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Across the wider county, Kalamazoo County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,532, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Kalamazoo Innovative Learning Program is one of 93 public schools in Kalamazoo County (combined enrollment of about 34,151 students).

Nearest neighbor: El Sol Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kalamazoo Innovative Learning Program has increased 96%, going from 70 students in 2018 to 137 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 13% to 8% over that span.

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