Forest Hills Transition Center
GRAND RAPIDS · MI · Forest Hills Public Schools · Public
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Kent Career Tech Center → MySchoolKent → Shared Time → Excel Charter Academy → Oakridge Middle School → Flat River Academy → Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility → Handlon Correctional Facility →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Forest Hills Transition Center compares for families
What families should know about Forest Hills Transition Center.
- ▸ LocallyMI sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Kent Career Tech Center, MySchoolKent, Shared Time and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $13,138/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -21.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 8 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent Career Tech Center GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 1.0 | — | — |
| MySchoolKent GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 1.0 | — | — |
| Shared Time GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 3.8 | — | — |
| Excel Charter Academy GRAND RAPIDS |
Public · charter | 6.8 | — | — |
| Oakridge Middle School MUSKEGON |
Public | 32.2 | 1 | — |
| Flat River Academy GREENVILLE |
Public · charter | 20.1 | — | — |
| Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility IONIA |
Public | 23.9 | — | — |
| Handlon Correctional Facility IONIA |
Public | 24.0 | — | — |