Meadow Brook Elementary School

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Meadow Brook Elementary School serves 431 students from grades K through 4, part of Forest Hills Public Schools.

Across the 18 schools in Forest Hills Public Schools (8,797 students total), Meadow Brook Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Meadow Brook Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 7% Black. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Meadow Brook Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Kent County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadow Brook Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Michigan schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 54.6%; actual is 67.8%, +13.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kent County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kent County runs 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), of which Meadow Brook Elementary School is one.

Ridge Park Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Meadow Brook Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 66.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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