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New Branches Charter Academy

Grand Rapids, Michigan · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

345
Students enrolled
1
Public schools
27
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.6:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 42
  • Grade 1 45
  • Grade 2 37
  • Grade 3 35
  • Grade 4 49
  • Grade 5 34
  • Grade 6 41
  • Grade 7 34
  • Grade 8 28

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 51%
  • Hispanic/Latino 26%
  • White 10%
  • Two or more races 10%
  • Asian 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 307 of 345 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 77%
  • Reduced-price lunch 12%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$14,036 spent per student on day-to-day operations Michigan median: $14,724 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,630
  • Support services $6,242
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,164

Where the money comes from

  • Local 7%
  • State 71%
  • Federal 23%

Total revenue $6.2 milliontotal spending $5.6 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 08

Locale (NCES)

City: Midsize

Total staff (FTE)

59

District office

3662 POINSETTIA AVE SE, Grand Rapids MI 49508

County

Kent County

Official website

NCES District ID

2600090

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About New Branches Charter Academy

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

At New Branches School our mission is to cultivate healthy, productive, and responsible students who are excited to learn and able to lead. Working to achieve this goal we have a group of highly qualified and motivated staff, involved and interested parents, and students who are ready to learn. Our school focuses on teaching the whole student. In addition to our exemplary academic curriculum we teach and model stewardship, responsibility, teamwork and healthy habits. Also, starting in Kindergarten all of our classrooms teach an environmental curriculum, culminating with our specialized 6th grade Environmental Outreach Program.
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