Summary:
East Grand Rapids High School is the sole high school in the East Grand Rapids Public Schools district, serving grades 9 through 12 with 908 students in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.
This is an elite, top-performing school. It currently ranks 4th out of 800 Michigan high schools (100th percentile, 5 stars) and has climbed from 7th place just two years ago. The graduation rate is an exceptional 97.9% compared to the 84.0% state average, and the dropout rate is literally zero percent. Chronic absenteeism sits at just 7.6% versus 27.9% statewide, indicating a highly engaged student body. Academically, proficiency rates are roughly double to triple the state averages across every subject and grade level. For example, 11th-grade SAT math proficiency is 67.3% versus 26.5% statewide, and 10th-grade PSAT ELA proficiency is 92.9% versus 58.0% statewide. Even the school's relative weakness—mathematics compared to its own English language arts scores—still outperforms the state by over 40 percentage points.
One notable pattern is a consistent and widening gap between ELA and math proficiency as students advance: the gap grows from 15.7 points in 9th grade to 21.5 points by 11th grade. Additionally, 11th-grade SAT math dropped 4.6 points year-over-year, which may warrant attention. The school achieves these results with a 19.3:1 student-teacher ratio, which is higher than what is typically seen at elite schools, and per-student spending of $15,211 is moderately above average. It is important to note that only 6.5% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, indicating a highly affluent population. Because this is a single-high-school district, all school-level metrics are identical to district-level metrics, making the data fully representative of the entire district's performance.
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