High · Michigan
Central High School
Central High School, a public high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan: grades 9–12, 999 students, 18.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Forest Hills Public Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with high 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
- 999
- Teachers (FTE)
- 55.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.2
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 51% of high schools in Michigan
Median 18.4 · 866 schools compared
More students per teacher than 75% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 86% of high schools in Michigan
Median 322 · 916 schools compared
Larger than 74% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Forest Hills Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 5901 Hall St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
- Phone
- (616)493-8700
- City or town
- Forest Hills
- County
- Kent County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 1,088 | 15.5 | |
West Michigan Aviation AcademyCharterFree meals for all | 9–12 | 600 | 16.9 |
Forest Hills Transition CenterSpecial education | 12 | 8 | 3.7 |
| 9–12 | 768 | 17.7 | |
| 9–12 | 908 | 19.3 | |
Kent Career Tech CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
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; state test results are compared only within a state.
NCES 261461005155