Bethany Based School
GRAND RAPIDS · MI · Grand Rapids Public Schools · Public · K-12 combined
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Shared Time → Kent Career Tech Center → MySchoolKent → Grandville Education Center → Excel Charter Academy → Sheldon Pines School → Lighthouse AcademyBarry County Community Building → Comstock Park Flex Academy →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Bethany Based School compares for families
What families should know about Bethany Based School.
- ▸ 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: Shared Time, Kent Career Tech Center, MySchoolKent and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Source: 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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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 -15.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 12 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.
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| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared Time GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 2.2 | — | — |
| Kent Career Tech Center GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 2.9 | — | — |
| MySchoolKent GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 2.9 | — | — |
| Grandville Education Center GRANDVILLE |
Public | 8.4 | 22 | — |
| Excel Charter Academy GRAND RAPIDS |
Public · charter | 6.6 | — | — |
| Sheldon Pines School HOLLAND |
Public | 24.5 | 12 | — |
| Lighthouse AcademyBarry County Community Building HASTINGS |
Public · charter | 27.7 | 11 | — |
| Comstock Park Flex Academy COMSTOCK PARK |
Public | 5.2 | 33 | — |