Pinewood Middle School

Pinewood Middle School is a middle-grades school of large scale in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, operated by Kentwood Public Schools, serveing 842 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 68% above the state mean of about 502.

Kentwood Public Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 9,536 students. Pinewood Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pinewood Middle School reports that 35% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 24% White, 18% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Pinewood Middle School shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Pinewood Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kent County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pinewood Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Kent County shows median household earnings sit near $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Pinewood Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is East Kentwood Freshman Campus, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pinewood Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 10%: 762 students in 2018 compared to 842 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 24% across the same window.

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