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Grand Rapids Child Discovery Center

Charter schoolKent County

Grand Rapids Child Discovery Center is a public school academy in Kent County, Michigan. In the 2024–25 school year it reported $3.8 million in general fund spending, or $13,257 per pupil.

School finances, 2024–25 school year

General fund figures, as published by the Michigan Department of Education.

Pupils

287

full-time equivalent

General fund spending

$3.8M

the main operating fund

Spending per pupil

$13,257

general fund

Average teacher salary

$62,823

15 teachers (full-time equivalent)

Spending

Item Total Per pupil
Basic instruction $2,141,791 $7,464
Added needs instruction $406,493 $1,417
Adult education instruction $0
Total instruction $2,548,284 $8,881
Instructional staff support $173,824 $606
Administration $796,091 $2,774
Operations and maintenance $254,663 $887
Transportation $0 $0
Total support services $1,224,578 $4,268
Current operating spending $3,772,862 $13,148
Facilities acquisition $0 $0
Total general fund spending $3,804,173 $13,257

Revenue

Item Total Per pupil
Local $219,333 $764
State $3,509,667 $12,231
Federal $131,639 $459
Total general fund revenue $3,860,639 $13,454

Salaries

Item Total Per pupil
Instructional salaries $2,459,320 $8,571
Support service salaries $597,026 $2,081
Teacher salaries, basic instruction $936,062

Taxable value in the district

Item Total Per pupil
Primary homes (homestead) $0 $0
Rentals, second homes and businesses (non-homestead) $0 $0

Every figure, including each per-pupil figure, is the publisher's own. Total instruction is the three instruction lines above it, and current operating spending is total instruction plus total support services. Total support services and total revenue can also include amounts the bulletin does not list separately. Adult education and teacher salaries have no per-pupil figure here, because the bulletin does not divide them by the pupil count. Pupils per teacher: 19.

Source: Bulletin 1014: Michigan Public Schools Ranked by Select Financial Information, data export, Michigan Department of Education, retrieved September 26, 2026.

Transparency checks

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Required by law

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  • Found: Audit for the latest fiscal year filed (posted on its website)

    The transparency page (homepage link "Transparancy Reporting") posts "Audited Financial Statement: June 30, 2025". Posted on the school's site, which the publisher's rule of 2026-09-27 counts as filed.

    MCL 388.1618 · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Audit for the latest fiscal year filed (posted on its website)

  • Not found: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

    No FOIA procedures and guidelines or written public summary: none on the site's own pages (the homepage, the transparency page and the 53 pages of its sitemap), and none in the board policy book its "Bylaws and Policies" link opens on BoardDocs. That book, read in the publisher's Chrome because BoardDocs answers the project's user agent with HTTP 403, holds Board Policy 8310 (Public Records, last revised April 11, 2022) and 8310.01 (Enhanced Access), board policies that direct the School Leader to set up procedures, with no attachments.

    MCL 15.234(4) · Read September 27, 2026 on its website, page by page · Evidence for FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

  • Found: Transparency page: operating budget and budget revisions

    "FY27 Budget Approved" and the FY27 initial budget resolution.

    MCL 388.1618(2)(a) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: operating budget and budget revisions

  • Found: Transparency page: personnel cost and spending-by-function charts

    "Current Personnel Expenditures" and "Current Operating Expenditures" (the FY2025 reports).

    MCL 388.1618(2)(b) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: personnel cost and spending-by-function charts

  • Not found: Transparency page: labor agreements, health plans, audit, benefit bids, policies and check register

    No expense reimbursement policy is posted or referred to. The page posts the audit for June 30, 2025, the staff health plans, a statement on medical bids (teachers' benefits follow the bargaining agreement; no bids for 2025-2026), the procurement policy by reference to the Board policy book, the 2024-2025 accounts payable register, and as "Current Bargaining Agreements" the GREA-GRPS agreement for 2022-23 to 2024-25.

    MCL 388.1618(2)(c) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: labor agreements, health plans, audit, benefit bids, policies and check register

  • Found: Transparency page: superintendent's pay, and pay of everyone paid over $100,000

    States the top administrator's salary ($116,699) and the cost of each fringe benefit.

    MCL 388.1618(2)(d) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: superintendent's pay, and pay of everyone paid over $100,000

  • Found: Transparency page: association dues

    States the association dues paid for fiscal year 2024-2025 were $0.

    MCL 388.1618(2)(e) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: association dues

  • Found: Transparency page: lobbying spending

    States the district paid $0 for lobbying for fiscal year 2024-2025.

    MCL 388.1618(2)(f) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: lobbying spending

  • Found: Transparency page: district credit cards

    Names the school's one credit card, its limit, its authorized user and the single purchase limit.

    MCL 388.1618(2)(h) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: district credit cards

  • Found: Transparency page: administrators' out-of-state trips

    States "No travel to report for 2024-2025."

    MCL 388.1618(2)(i) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: administrators' out-of-state trips

  • Not found: Management company's information posted, and authorizer and company named in the site footer

    The site footer gives the address and a nondiscrimination statement but names neither the authorizer nor any management company; the board page says Grand Valley State University is the authorizer. No management company or ESP report is posted. Its charter contract requires the footer to name them (MCL 380.503(6)(q), added by 2024 PA 210): GVSU's contract, which began July 1, 2026 (to June 30, 2033), requires "authorized by Grand Valley State University" in the footer.

    MCL 380.503c; MCL 380.503 · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Management company's information posted, and authorizer and company named in the site footer

Good practice

0 found · 0 not found · 11 not read yet

11 checks not read yet

  • Current budget posted

  • Budgets for the past three years posted

  • Latest audit posted

  • Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file

  • Regular meeting schedule for the year posted

  • Agendas posted for the past 12 months

  • Minutes posted for the past 12 months

  • Members' names and a way to contact them posted

  • Check register (payments) posted

  • Employee pay or salary schedule posted

  • Current contracts posted

About

Type
Public School Academy
Notes
Website from the NCES Common Core of Data district directory (2025-2026), checked on the school's own site 2026-09-27.

Codes

Michigan CEPI code
41921
NCES district ID
2600252

Sources

Where this page's facts come from.

Open Government Project · a nonpartisan, nonprofit project

Every figure comes from a public record, cited on its page.