Chandler Innovation Academy

Chandler Innovation Academy is a combined-grade school of small scale in Goshen, Indiana, overseen by Goshen Community Schools, serveing 357 students in grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 531.

Within Goshen Community Schools, which oversees 10 schools and 6,242 students, Chandler Innovation Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chandler Innovation Academy reports that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 38% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 37.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 24.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Elkhart County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Elkhart County put the typical household earns roughly $68,561 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Chandler Innovation Academy is one of 60 public schools in Elkhart County (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students).

The closest other public school is Goshen High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

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