Northern High School
Grand Rapids, MI · High School · Grades 9-12
Northern High School is a high school in Grand Rapids, MI with 1,134 students enrolled and a 66% proficiency rate. Part of Forest Hills Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Northern High School is a high school located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The school serves 1,134 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 19.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 66% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 84% graduation rate.
17% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Northern High School is part of the Forest Hills Public Schools in Michigan.
How This School Compares
Northern High School has 1,134 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Forest Hills Public Schools (509 students). Its 66% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points above the district average of 63%. Compared to the Michigan state average of 47%, the school performs 19 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Northern High School has 1,134 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 19.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 66% of students at Northern High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Northern High School has a 84% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Northern High School is part of the Forest Hills Public Schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.