Public school / High
River Valley Academy
Rockford, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 263003000905
- District
- Rockford Public Schools
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
River Valley Academy is a public high school in Rockford, Michigan, run by Rockford Public Schools. It enrols 51 students — the 91545th 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
51
Teachers
8.0
Students per teacher
6.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
43.1%
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 Rockford 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.
- 1Rockford High School1,819 students
- 2North Rockford Middle School885 students
- 3East Rockford Middle School740 students
- 4Valley View Elementary School631 students
- 5Rockford Hs Freshman Center597 students
- 6Crestwood Elementary School510 students
- 7Lakes Elementary School509 students
- 8Meadow Ridge Elementary School439 students
- Enrollment−86.8%
- Teachers−63.6%
- Students per teacher−62.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−27.3%
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