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Grand Rapids, Michigan - 7 schools
Kent Isd operates 7 public schools serving 3,324 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Michigan. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Kent County.
The funding mix is 63.4% local, 25.7% state, and 10.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 60.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.8% White, 18.7% African American, 18.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pine Grove Learning Center, with a diversity index of 71.2/100.
Its largest campus is Empower U, enrolling 188 students (32% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Kent Education Centeroakleigh, at 32 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Kent Isd school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 188 students (highest), a spread of 156 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Average demographic composition across 7 schools in Kent Isd.
Source: NCES CCD School Membership 2024-25.
Average Simpson diversity index across Kent Isd's schools, above the Michigan average of 36.2.
Source: NCES Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22.
| School | Enrollment |
|---|---|
| Empower U | 188 |
| Lincoln School | 99 |
| Pine Grove Learning Center | 85 |
| Lincoln Developmental Center | 77 |
| Kent Isd Deaf and Hard of Hearing | 61 |
| Kent Education Centerbeltline | 43 |
| Kent Education Centeroakleigh | 32 |
The Michigan districts closest to this one in total enrollment.
| District | Enrollment | Spending | Funding Mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niles Community Schools | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Muskegon Public Schools of the City of | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Southgate Community School District | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Mt. Pleasant City School District | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
| Dexter Community School District | Similar size | No spending data | Less locally funded |
Comparisons are relative to Kent Isd's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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Compare vs Detroit Public Schools Community District →Kent Isd has 7 schools, including 5 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 3,324 students.
Kent Isd students are 50.8% White, 18.7% African American, 18.3% Hispanic or Latino, 3.3% Asian, averaged across 7 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.
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