High · Michigan
Empower U
Special educationFree meals for allEmpower U, a public high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan: grades 6–12, 188 students, 4.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Kent ISD.
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
- 188
- Teachers (FTE)
- 38.0
- Students per teacher
- 4.9
- Grades
- 6–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 97% of high schools in Michigan
Median 18.4 · 866 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 96% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 62% of high schools in Michigan
Median 322 · 916 schools compared
Smaller than 71% 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 6–12
- Type
- District school · Special education
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Kent ISD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Kent ISD.
Location
- Address
- 225 Mayfield Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
- Phone
- (616)410-4860
- City or town
- Grand Rapids
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Lighthouse Academy The PierCharterAlternative | 9–12 | 7 | 3.2 |
Bethany Based SchoolAlternative | 6–12 | 12 | 7.5 |
Innovation Central HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 386 | 13.9 |
Grand Rapids Montessori MiddleHighFree meals for all | 7–12 | 184 | 16.2 |
Grand Rapids Learning CenterAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 39 | 19.5 |
Wellspring Preparatory High SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 9–12 | 267 | 15.8 |
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.
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