Spring Valley Center for Exploration

Spring Valley Center for Exploration is an elementary school in KALAMAZOO, Michigan, according to federal school records. It serves 263 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Michigan average about 369 students.

Kalamazoo Public Schools has 26 schools; together they serve 12,227 students.

Roughly 50% of students at Spring Valley Center for Exploration are Black. Other reported shares: 22% multiracial, 17% White, and 9% Hispanic. Kalamazoo County's residents are about 11% Black, 39 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The school employs the equivalent of 20.4 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 12.9:1. That is 3.0 students per teacher below the 15.8:1 average for elementary schools in Michigan. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Spring Valley Center for Exploration is 84%. That is higher than the 45% average for public schools in Kalamazoo County.

Across Kalamazoo County, the median household income is $72,532, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Kalamazoo County is home to 93 public schools and about 34,151 public school students.

The next-closest public school is Parchment High School, about 0.8 miles away. Spring Valley Center for Exploration is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

For locale, NCES codes Spring Valley Center for Exploration as City: Small.

Enrollment is down 18% from 2020-21, when Spring Valley Center for Exploration had 322 students, to 2024-25, when it had 263. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.3:1 in 2020-21, and 12.9:1 in 2024-25.

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