Ridgemoor Park Montessori

Ridgemoor Park Montessori operates as a rural-scale primary school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, overseen by Grand Rapids Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 131 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Ridgemoor Park Montessori sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

Grand Rapids Public Schools comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 13,903 students; Ridgemoor Park Montessori is among them.

On the student-mix side, Ridgemoor Park Montessori records that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Black, 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kent County) shows that median household earnings sit near $82,631, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Ridgemoor Park Montessori is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Breton Downs School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Ridgemoor Park Montessori's enrollment has climbed 90% since 2018, when it stood at 69 (now 131). Over the same period, the White share edged up from 35% to 60%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 34.5:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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