Public School Academy

Grove Montessori: A Wildflower Public School

Charter schoolKent County

Grove Montessori: A Wildflower Public School is a public school academy in Kent County, Michigan.

Transparency checks

What this body files with the State and posts online, checked against the law and good practice.

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Required by law

7 found · 3 not found

Not found: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

No FOIA procedures and guidelines or written public summary was found: the homepage links none, and none of the 61 pages in the site's sitemap is a FOIA page (2026-09-27).

MCL 15.234(4) · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for FOIA procedures and written public summary posted
Not found: Transparency page: operating budget and budget revisions

Posts the 2025-26 and 2024-25 board approved budgets, but no 2026-27 budget for the fiscal year in progress.

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

States the expenditure charts are not available "Because this is our first year in operation."

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

States its staff do not work under bargaining agreements, posts health plan summaries, procurement and expense reimbursement policies, and explains that no audit or check register exists yet; under Medical Benefit Plan Bids it says only "We have no medical benefit plan bids".

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

"Salary of Top Administrator", with 2025-26 average salaries.

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 "There were no district paid association dues for 2024-25."

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 "There were no district paid lobbying costs for 2024-25."

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

States "The district does not have district credit cards."

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 "There was no travel to report in 2024-25."

MCL 388.1618(2)(i) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: administrators' out-of-state trips
Found: Management company's information posted, and authorizer and company named in the site footer

The footer says the school "is a non-profit organization authorized by Grand Valley State University"; the site names no management company.

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
County: Kent County
Website: grovemontessori.org
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: 41933
NCES district ID: 2681003

Sources

Where this page's facts come from.

Educational Entity Master public data set: ISD, LEA and PSA districts and colleges
Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) · 2026-09-24 export
Charter school checks (L6, W1, W2, W3), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-09-27