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Public school / Other

Valley Center School

Kalamazoo, Michigan

NCES ID
268060000873
District
Kalamazoo Resa
School type
Special education
Title I
Not designated

Valley Center School is a public other school in Kalamazoo, Michigan, run by Kalamazoo Resa. It enrols 32 students — the 93205th 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

32students

93205th nationally, tied with 84

Teachers

5.0FTE

89573rd nationally, tied with 1,127

Students per teacher

6.4students

2313th nationally, tied with 63

Free or reduced-price lunch

71.9%percent

29148th nationally, tied with 91

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 Kalamazoo Resa

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. 1Woodsedge Learning Center220 students
  2. 2Kalamazoo Resa West Campusyoung Adult Program111 students
  3. 3Youth Center School43 students
  4. 4Valley Center School32 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−91.7%
  • Teachers−77.3%
  • Students per teacher−62.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+21.2%
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Where this sits

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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.