Middle · Michigan
Alger Middle School
Free meals for allAlger Middle School, a public middle school in Grand Rapids, Michigan: grades 6–8, 314 students, 16.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Grand Rapids Public Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 314
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.6
- Students per teacher
- 16.1
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 73% of middle schools in Michigan
Median 17.5 · 490 schools compared
More students per teacher than 63% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 74% of middle schools in Michigan
Median 503 · 491 schools compared
Smaller than 74% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Grand Rapids Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 921 Alger St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507
- Phone
- (616)819-6200
- City or town
- Grand Rapids
- County
- Kent County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Burton Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 488 | 19.1 |
Godwin Heights Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 382 | 16.5 |
| 6–8 | 710 | 19.4 | |
Lee Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 346 | 15.6 |
Wyoming IntermediateFree meals for all | 5–6 | 579 | 16.7 |
Kelloggsville Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 475 | 19.9 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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