Beiger Elementary School

Set in Mishawaka, Indiana, Beiger Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school, overseen by School City of Mishawaka. It enrolls 504 students across grades pre-K through 6.

School City of Mishawaka runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,051 students. Beiger Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Beiger Elementary School reports that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 11% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 9% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Beiger Elementary School reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 30% of students at Beiger Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of St. Joseph County's rate of about 46%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Beiger Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.3%; actual is 35.3%, a gap of -19.1 points.

In the area at large, St. Joseph County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,868, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, St. Joseph County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), of which Beiger Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mishawaka High School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Beiger Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beiger Elementary School has edged down 18%, going from 617 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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