Public school / Other / Charter
Lighthouse Academy Waalkes
Grand Rapids, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 260094908355
- District
- Lighthouse Academy
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Lighthouse Academy Waalkes is a public other school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, run by Lighthouse Academy. It enrols 80 students — the 89106th 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
80
Teachers
5.0
Students per teacher
16.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
96.3%
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 Lighthouse Academy
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.
- 1Lighthouse Academy South Campus146 students
- 2Lighthouse Academy Waalkes80 students
- 3Lighthouse Academy Eagle Village36 students
- 4Lighthouse Academy the Pier31 students
- 5Lighthouse Academy Ottawa Juvenile Detention Center24 students
- 6Muskegon County Juvenile Transition Center19 students
- 7Lighthouse Academy Juvenile Justice Institute8 students
- Enrollment−79.2%
- Teachers−77.3%
- Students per teacher−5.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+62.4%
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