North Oakview Elementary School

North Oakview Elementary School operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, operated by Northview Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 346 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

North Oakview Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Northview Public Schools, a district that educates 3,120 students overall.

Looking at the student body, North Oakview Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Kent County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, North Oakview Elementary School shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Oakview Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.0%.

In the surrounding community, Kent County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,631, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), North Oakview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Kent ISD Deaf and Hard of Hearing is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, North Oakview Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. North Oakview Elementary School's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 424 (now 346). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 82% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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