Lighthouse Academy Waalkes
GRAND RAPIDS · MI · Lighthouse Academy · Public charter · K-12 combined
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East Lee Campus → Comstock Park Flex Academy → Godwin Heights Learning Center → River Valley Academy → 54th Street Academy → Kent Career Tech Center → MySchoolKent → Shared Time →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Lighthouse Academy Waalkes compares for families
What families should know about Lighthouse Academy Waalkes.
- ▸ 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: East Lee Campus, Comstock Park Flex Academy, Godwin Heights Learning Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 4% 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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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 +8.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 73 students:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Lee Campus WYOMING |
Public | 4.4 | 87 | -10.3% |
| Comstock Park Flex Academy COMSTOCK PARK |
Public | 5.3 | 33 | — |
| Godwin Heights Learning Center GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 5.9 | 97 | +36.6% |
| River Valley Academy ROCKFORD |
Public | 10.7 | 37 | — |
| 54th Street Academy GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 8.1 | 94 | +42.4% |
| Kent Career Tech Center GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 2.0 | — | — |
| MySchoolKent GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 2.0 | — | — |
| Shared Time GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 2.3 | — | — |