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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Central High School, Grand Rapids, MI

Central High School is a public high school in Grand Rapids, part of Forest Hills Public Schools. It enrolled 999 students in 2024-25, with 18.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
999
Teachers (FTE)
55.0
Students per teacher
18.2
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.3 higher than the district figure of 16.9. The Michigan average across schools is 16.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.2
District16.9
Michigan16.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
5901 Hall St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
County
Kent County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
261461005155
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
126
Reduced-price lunch
11
Free or reduced-price lunch
13713.7% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Forest Hills Public Schools

High schools elsewhere in Grand Rapids

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.