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Public school / High

Empower U

Grand Rapids, Michigan

NCES ID
268062008363
District
Kent ISD
School type
Special education
Title I
Not designated

Empower U is a public high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, run by Kent ISD. It enrols 150 students — the 82827th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

150students

82827th nationally, tied with 85

Teachers

29.0FTE

43988th nationally, tied with 2,243

Students per teacher

5.2students

1525th nationally, tied with 49

Free or reduced-price lunch

32.7%percent

67273rd nationally, tied with 80

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Kent ISD

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Empower U150 students
  2. 2Lincoln School106 students
  3. 3Lincoln Developmental Center80 students
  4. 4Pine Grove Learning Center78 students
  5. 5Kent ISD Deaf and Hard of Hearing60 students
  6. 6Kent Education Centerbeltline46 students
  7. 7Kent Education Centeroakleigh32 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Michigan median across 3,559 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−61.0%
  • Teachers+31.8%
  • Students per teacher−69.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−44.9%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.