Union High School

Located at 1800 TREMONT BLVD NW, in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Union High School is a high-enrollment high school that caters to 881 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Grand Rapids Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 460 students per school, that is 92% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Union High School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 36% Black, 8% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Union High School records 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Union High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kent County put median household income runs about $82,631, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kent County's 239 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students), Union High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Union High Transition, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Union High School.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 983 students in 2018 compared to 881 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 12% to 8%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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