Public school / Middle
John Ball Park Zoo School
Grand Rapids, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 261644000893
- District
- Grand Rapids Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
John Ball Park Zoo School is a public middle school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, run by Grand Rapids Public Schools. It enrols 59 students — the 90861st largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.
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
59
Teachers
2.0
Students per teacher
29.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
39.0%
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.
Within Grand Rapids Public Schools
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.
- 1Union High School922 students
- 2City Middlehigh908 students
- 3Harrison Park Academy639 students
- 4Southwest Elementary Academia Bilingue635 students
- 5Innovation Central High523 students
- 6Burton Middle School482 students
- 7Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy466 students
- 8Ca Frost Environmental Science Academy Elementary448 students
- Enrollment−84.7%
- Teachers−90.9%
- Students per teacher+73.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−34.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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