High · Michigan
Northern High School
Northern High School, a public high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan: grades 9–12, 1,088 students, 15.5 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
- 1,088
- Teachers (FTE)
- 70.3
- Students per teacher
- 15.5
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 74% of high schools in Michigan
Median 18.4 · 866 schools compared
More students per teacher than 58% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 88% of high schools in Michigan
Median 322 · 916 schools compared
Larger than 77% 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
- 3801 Leonard St NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525
- Phone
- (616)493-8600
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Forest Hills Transition CenterSpecial education | 12 | 8 | 3.7 |
| 6–12 | 0 | — | |
Kent Career Tech CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Kent Education CenterBeltlineSpecial educationFree meals for all | 9–12 | 43 | 3.2 |
| 9–12 | 768 | 17.7 | |
Lighthouse Academy The PierCharterAlternative | 9–12 | 7 | 3.2 |
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 261461005158