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Grand Rapids, Michigan - 7 schools
3,324
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
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 varies 5.9× across entities
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.
Kent Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 50.5% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Kent Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 60.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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.
Kent Isd has 7 schools, including 5 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 3,324 students.
What is the demographic composition of Kent Isd?
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.