Career Academy Middle School

Career Academy Middle School, a cozy 6-8 campus in South Bend, Indiana, operated by Career Academy Middle School, hosts 414 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Career Academy Middle School sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Career Academy Middle School is the operating authority for Career Academy Middle School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Career Academy Middle School shows that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% White, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Career Academy Middle School records 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.3:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above St. Joseph County's rate of about 46%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Career Academy Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.0%; actual is 18.2%, a gap of -14.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, St. Joseph County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,868, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Joseph County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), of which Career Academy Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Career Academy High School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Career Academy Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, Career Academy Middle School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Career Academy Middle School has edged up 28%, going from 323 students in 2018 to 414 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 50% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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