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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Great Lakes Elementary School

Holland, Michigan

NCES ID
263591001085
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Great Lakes Elementary School is a public primary school in Holland, Michigan, run by West Ottawa Public School District. It enrols 409 students — the 49567th 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

409students

49567th nationally, tied with 138

Teachers

36.0FTE

30710th nationally, tied with 1,648

Students per teacher

11.4students

16334th nationally, tied with 644

Free or reduced-price lunch

73.6%percent

27637th nationally, tied with 98

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 West Ottawa Public School District

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. 1West Ottawa High School Campus2,196 students
  2. 2Harbor Lights Middle School817 students
  3. 3Macatawa Bay Middle School646 students
  4. 4Woodside Elementary School459 students
  5. 5Waukazoo Elementary School454 students
  6. 6Lakeshore Elementary School419 students
  7. 7Great Lakes Elementary School409 students
  8. 8Pine Creek Elementary School366 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+6.2%
  • Teachers+63.6%
  • Students per teacher−32.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+24.1%
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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.