Stocking Elementary

Stocking Elementary operates as an intimate elementary school in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, part of Grand Rapids Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 161 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 56% leaner than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Stocking Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 31% Black, 19% White, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Stocking Elementary lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Stocking Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Kent County's rate of about 47%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kent County put the typical household earns roughly $82,631 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Stocking Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NexTech High School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stocking Elementary.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Stocking Elementary's enrollment has shrank 43% since 2018, when it stood at 281 (now 161). Hispanic enrollment moved from 44% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2024.

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