Ottawa Hills High School

Set in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Ottawa Hills High School is an intimate secondary school, operated by Grand Rapids Public Schools. It enrolls 385 students across grades 9 through 12.

Across the 50 schools in Grand Rapids Public Schools (13,903 students total), Ottawa Hills High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Ottawa Hills High School lists that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 18% Hispanic, 8% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Ottawa Hills High School logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Ottawa Hills High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Kent County's rate of about 47%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Kent County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Ottawa Hills High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ottawa High Transition, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ottawa Hills High School.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 501 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 76% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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