This 1910 school census consists of information for six school districts with each ledger encompassing a different city ward. We have most of the records for Districts 1-6, but there are sections of the city that are unaccounted for. By analyzing the records we have, it is currently believed that the boundaries of each district coincide with the expansion of the city.

District 1 encompasses the center of the city and has 12 ledgers- for the 12 different city wards; District two is a ring around District 1; and District 6 only has one ledger for Ward 6 in the most northwestern corner. The 1909 Annual Report from the Grand Rapids Board of Education contains a map of the school districts in 1910 with the different locations of the public schools and the boundaries for each school district (an original is also featured in our map collection: #240/2.3/1). This particular map indicates that there is a different school district for each school, which does not concur with the districts outlined in the 1910 census records.

In the first box, we have records for District 1 wards 1-12, and District 2 ward 10. In the second box we have records for District 2 wards 2-12. In the third box we have the records for District 3 wards 1, 3-7, and 9-12. In the fourth box we have the records for District 4 wards 5, 10-12; District 5, wards 5, 6, & 11; and District 6 ward 6.