The Greenspire High School

Set in TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, The Greenspire High School is an one-room-style high school, one of the schools within The Greenspire School. It serves 176 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 460 students each, so The Greenspire High School sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.

The Greenspire School comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 269 students; The Greenspire High School is among them.

Demographically, The Greenspire High School records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting The Greenspire High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Grand Traverse County's rate of about 31%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Grand Traverse County put the typical household earns roughly $81,647 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 Grand Traverse County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,069 students), The Greenspire High School is one campus in the mix.

North EdNew Horizons is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Greenspire High School.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. The Greenspire High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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