Public school / High
Phoenix Alternative High School
Kalamazoo, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 261995000047
- District
- Kalamazoo Public Schools
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Phoenix Alternative High School is a public high school in Kalamazoo, Michigan, run by Kalamazoo Public Schools. It enrols 219 students — the 75906th 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
219
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
21.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
88.6%
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 Kalamazoo 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.
- 1Loy Norrix High School1,771 students
- 2Kalamazoo Central High School1,612 students
- 3Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts860 students
- 4Milwood Magnet School742 students
- 5Linden Grove Middle School705 students
- 6Kingwestwood Elementary School591 students
- 7Woods Lake Elementarya Magnet Center for the Arts566 students
- 8Hillside Middle School512 students
- Enrollment−43.1%
- Teachers−54.5%
- Students per teacher+28.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+49.4%
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