White Pines Intermediate School

Set in GRAND HAVEN, Michigan, White Pines Intermediate School is a reasonably sized intermediate school, part of Grand Haven Area Public Schools. It hosts 740 students across grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 47% bigger than typical.

Grand Haven Area Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,171 students. White Pines Intermediate School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, White Pines Intermediate School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, White Pines Intermediate School has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ottawa County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, White Pines Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 56.1%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the area at large, Ottawa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,502 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Ottawa County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,894 students), White Pines Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Griffin Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), White Pines Intermediate School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at White Pines Intermediate School has declined 14%, going from 858 students in 2018 to 740 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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