Public School Academy
West Michigan Aviation Academy
West Michigan Aviation Academy is a public school academy in Kent County, Michigan. In the 2024–25 school year it reported $7.9 million in general fund spending, or $13,584 per pupil.
School finances, 2024–25 school year
General fund figures, as published by the Michigan Department of Education.
Pupils
581
full-time equivalent
General fund spending
$7.9M
the main operating fund
Spending per pupil
$13,584
general fund
Average teacher salary
$0
31 teachers (full-time equivalent)
Spending
| Item | Total | Per pupil |
|---|---|---|
| Basic instruction | $3,065,017 | $5,272 |
| Added needs instruction | $803,916 | $1,383 |
| Adult education instruction | $0 | |
| Total instruction | $3,868,933 | $6,655 |
| Instructional staff support | $359,795 | $619 |
| Administration | $1,558,188 | $2,680 |
| Operations and maintenance | $817,489 | $1,406 |
| Transportation | $11,927 | $21 |
| Total support services | $2,747,399 | $4,726 |
| Current operating spending | $6,616,332 | $11,381 |
| Facilities acquisition | $0 | $0 |
| Total general fund spending | $7,896,773 | $13,584 |
Revenue
| Item | Total | Per pupil |
|---|---|---|
| Local | $1,525,569 | $2,624 |
| State | $6,664,347 | $11,464 |
| Federal | $128,468 | $221 |
| Total general fund revenue | $8,318,384 | $14,309 |
Salaries
| Item | Total | Per pupil |
|---|---|---|
| Instructional salaries | $5,168 | $9 |
| Support service salaries | $6,229 | $11 |
| 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: 19.
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 the "2024-25 Audit Financial Statement". 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
Board Documents links "FOIA", nine pages of FOIA procedures and guidelines, and "Board Policy 8310 / FOIA", a one-page board policy, but no written public summary; neither file contains one (opened 2026-09-27), and the site's sitemap lists no other FOIA page.
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
"2026-27 Budget", with the 2025-26 original and final 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
"2024-25 Budget Trans Personnel" and "2024-25 Budget Trans Operating".
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
States all staff are hired through a third party, so there are no bargaining agreements, school-sponsored health plans or medical benefit plan bids; posts the 2024-25 audit, the procurement policy, the employee expense reimbursement policy and the 2024-25 checkbook register (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025).
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
"Lead Administrator Compensation/Average Staff Salaries" (2026).
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
"2024-25 Dues Fees".
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
States "The district did not pay any lobby costs for the fiscal year ending June 2025."
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
"2024-25 Credit Cards".
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
"2024-25 Out of State Travel".
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 page posts the 2024-25 ESP expenditure reports. The site footer names only "Authorized by Grand Valley State University", but the footer rule of MCL 380.503(6)(q), added by 2024 PA 210 (effective April 2, 2025), binds only a contract made, extended, renewed or modified on or after that date: WMAA's contract, as GVSU posts it, runs from September 20, 2022 to June 30, 2029 and contains no footer term.
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
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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
- Website
- westmichiganaviation.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
- 41924
- Michigan Treasury unit code
- 414924
- NCES district ID
- 2600977
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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Treasury Document Search, Kent County local units
Michigan Department of Treasury, Local Audit and Finance Division · queried 2026-09-24
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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