Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue

Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue operates as a tight-knit high school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, operated by Grand Rapids Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 378 students spanning grades 7 through 12.

Within Grand Rapids Public Schools, which oversees 50 schools and 13,903 students, Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue shows that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 21.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 68% of students at Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Kent County shows 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), Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Southwest Elementary Academia Bilingue, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

On the community side, members of the Southwest MiddleHigh Academia Bilingue community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.