Rockford HS Freshman Center

Set in ROCKFORD, Michigan, Rockford HS Freshman Center is a middle-of-the-pack senior high, run under Rockford Public Schools. It educates 584 students across grade 9. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 27% bigger than typical.

Rockford Public Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,440 students. Rockford HS Freshman Center is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Rockford HS Freshman Center logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Kent County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Rockford HS Freshman Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rockford High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rockford HS Freshman Center.

Rockford HS Freshman Center operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 638 students in 2018 compared to 584 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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