Public School Academy
Wellspring Preparatory High School
Wellspring Preparatory High School is a public school academy in Kent County, Michigan. In the 2024–25 school year it reported $4.7 million in general fund spending, or $18,107 per pupil.
School finances, 2024–25 school year
General fund figures, as published by the Michigan Department of Education.
Pupils
262
full-time equivalent
General fund spending
$4.7M
the main operating fund
Spending per pupil
$18,107
general fund
Average teacher salary
$0
16 teachers (full-time equivalent)
Spending
| Item | Total | Per pupil |
|---|---|---|
| Basic instruction | $1,188,085 | $4,534 |
| Added needs instruction | $382,095 | $1,458 |
| Adult education instruction | $0 | |
| Total instruction | $1,570,180 | $5,992 |
| Instructional staff support | $797,421 | $3,043 |
| Administration | $1,206,621 | $4,605 |
| Operations and maintenance | $1,155,325 | $4,409 |
| Transportation | $15,096 | $58 |
| Total support services | $3,174,463 | $12,114 |
| Current operating spending | $4,744,643 | $18,106 |
| Facilities acquisition | $0 | $0 |
| Total general fund spending | $4,745,047 | $18,107 |
Revenue
| Item | Total | Per pupil |
|---|---|---|
| Local | $1,236,080 | $4,717 |
| State | $3,098,039 | $11,822 |
| Federal | $410,596 | $1,567 |
| Total general fund revenue | $4,744,715 | $18,106 |
Salaries
| Item | Total | Per pupil |
|---|---|---|
| Instructional salaries | $0 | $0 |
| Support service salaries | $0 | $0 |
| Teacher salaries, basic instruction | $0 |
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: 16.
Source: Bulletin 1014: Michigan Public Schools Ranked by Select Financial Information, data export, Michigan Department of Education, retrieved September 26, 2026.
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
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Found: Audit for the latest fiscal year filed (posted on its website)
Posts its audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (wellspring-preparatory-high-school-fs-6-30-25.pdf). 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)
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Not found: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted
No FOIA procedures and guidelines or written public summary was found: not on the school's pages (home, Transparency Reports, Board Documents, Privacy & Legal, School Operations), not among the 6,390 pages of the nhaschools.com sitemap, and not by a web search of the site (2026-09-27).
MCL 15.234(4) · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for FOIA procedures and written public summary posted
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Found: Transparency page: operating budget and budget revisions
"Initial Budget 2026-2027", with the 2025-2026 budgets.
MCL 388.1618(2)(a) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: operating budget and budget revisions
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Found: Transparency page: personnel cost and spending-by-function charts
"Operating Expenditures" and "Personnel Expenditures" (undated titles).
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
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Found: Transparency page: labor agreements, health plans, audit, benefit bids, policies and check register
Posts "Collective Bargaining Agreement", 2026 health, dental and vision plans, the audit for the year ended June 30, 2025, "Medical Benefit Plan Bids", the procurement policy, the board reimbursement policy (wellspring-board-reimbursement-policy-11-9-11.pdf) and the FY2024-25 statement of reimbursed expenses.
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
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Found: Transparency page: superintendent's pay, and pay of everyone paid over $100,000
"2025 Wellspring Compensation Information".
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
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Found: Transparency page: association dues
"District Paid Association Dues" (undated).
MCL 388.1618(2)(e) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: association dues
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Found: Transparency page: lobbying spending
"District Paid Lobbying Costs" (undated).
MCL 388.1618(2)(f) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: lobbying spending
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Found: Transparency page: district credit cards
"District Credit Card Information" (undated).
MCL 388.1618(2)(h) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: district credit cards
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Found: Transparency page: administrators' out-of-state trips
"District Paid Out-of-State Travel Information" (undated).
MCL 388.1618(2)(i) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: administrators' out-of-state trips
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Found: Management company's information posted, and authorizer and company named in the site footer
The footer says "Wellspring Preparatory High School is managed by National Heritage Academies and authorized by Bay Mills Community College." The transparency page posts the management company's reports (ESP Transparency Expenditures).
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
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Current budget posted
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Budgets for the past three years posted
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Latest audit posted
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Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file
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Regular meeting schedule for the year posted
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Agendas posted for the past 12 months
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Minutes posted for the past 12 months
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Members' names and a way to contact them posted
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Check register (payments) posted
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Employee pay or salary schedule posted
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Current contracts posted
About
- Type
- Public School Academy
- County
- Kent County
- 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
- 41923
- NCES district ID
- 2600981
Sources
Where this page's facts come from.
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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
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Bulletin 1014: Michigan Public Schools Ranked by Select Financial Information, data export
Michigan Department of Education · 2024-25 (Last-Modified 2026-08-13)
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Charter school checks (L6, W1, W2, W3), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-09-27