Westwood Middle School

Westwood Middle School is a very small middle-grades school in Grand Rapids Public Schools, located in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. It had 176 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in Michigan average about 502 students, which makes this school 65% below average.

The district, Grand Rapids Public Schools, has 13,903 students enrolled across 50 schools.

At Westwood Middle School, Black students make up the biggest share, 37%. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 14% White. By comparison, Kent County residents are about 10% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.

For every teacher at Westwood Middle School, there are about 10.3 students; the school has 17.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Michigan is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 153 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 87% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Kent County is 47%.

The school is in Kent County, where the median household earns about $82,631 a year, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Kent County, 239 public schools serve about 97,253 students.

Of the public schools around it, Westwood Middle School is closest to Union High Transition, about 0.2 miles away. Westwood Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The NCES locale for Westwood Middle School is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

The school's enrollment fell 31% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.3:1) than in 2020-21 (14.9:1).

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