Summary:
Zip code 49327, serving the Grant, Michigan area, is home to 2 elementary schools that together educate 514 students in grades K-4 within the Grant Public School District, a district rated 2 stars and ranked in the 49th percentile statewide.
These two schools form a natural feeder pattern, with Grant Primary Center serving the youngest learners in kindergarten and 1st grade (182 students), while Grant Elementary School takes over for grades 2-4 (332 students). A key difference between the two is resource allocation: the Primary Center spends significantly more per student ($18,975 vs. $15,524) and maintains a lower student-teacher ratio (11.5:1 vs. 14.3:1), suggesting a strong district investment in early education. The Primary Center also has a slightly lower rate of economic disadvantage, with 60.4% of its students qualifying for free/reduced lunch compared to 67.8% at the Elementary School. Both schools report chronic absenteeism rates (19-21%) that are notably better than both the district average (26.5%) and the state average (27.9%), which is a positive sign for family engagement despite the high-poverty context.
Standardized test data is only available for Grant Elementary School, and it reveals a concerning "4th grade cliff." While 3rd graders showed year-over-year improvement in both math (37.1% to 40.7%) and ELA (29.9% to 31.5%), 4th graders experienced significant declines, with math proficiency dropping from 32.4% to 26.8% and ELA falling from 38.1% to 33.0%. Third-grade math is a relative strength, nearly matching the state average (40.7% vs. 42.9%), but this advantage disappears by 4th grade, where scores fall 12.6 points below the state average. The school's overall ranking has remained stagnant, hovering around the 39th percentile over the past three years, indicating it is not gaining ground relative to other Michigan schools despite some improvements in early grades.
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