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Best kept secret at Cleveland Elementary School?
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Enrollment
519
Elementary
DISTRICT 417 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 180327000426
Cleveland Elementary School
53403 CR 1 N, Elkhart, IN 46514 · (574) 262-5580 · Elkhart County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL519 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Indiana public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
291 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 12% larger than its 6th grade class (59).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
27.1%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
33.3%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.9%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cleveland Elementary School
Cleveland Elementary School's state test result (26.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Elementary School this school | 519 | 56.1% | 26.0% |
| Wea Ridge Elementary School Lafayette | 609 | 57.3% | 39.8% |
| Stockwell Elementary School Evansville | 545 | 55.4% | 26.9% |
| South Grove Elementary School Beech Grove | 586 | 57.8% | 30.2% |
| Mayflower Mill Elementary School Lafayette | 585 | 59.7% | 38.4% |
| Fairlawn Elementary School Evansville | 450 | 60.4% | 8.9% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cleveland Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Elkhart County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #772 of 983 | #28 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #704 of 986 | #27 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #740 of 986 | #26 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 519 | #332 of 1,079 | #6 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #619 of 991 | #17 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #189 of 996 | #9 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.1% | #463 of 1,058 | #18 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.8% | #145 of 597 | #8 of 28 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
519
-50 (-9%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 523
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 519 | 33 | 15.7:1 | 56% (291) |
| 2023-24 | 557 | 33.5 | 16.6:1 | 64% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 561 | 30 | 18.7:1 | 64% (357) |
| 2020-21 | 569 | 45 | 12.6:1 | 53% (304) |
| 2017-18 | 664 | 32 | 20.8:1 | 58% (387) |
| 2015-16 | 682 | 36 | 18.9:1 | 56% (379) |
| 2010-11 | 675 | 37 | 18.2:1 | 60% (402) |
| 2000-01 | 733 | 39 | 18.8:1 | 38% (277) |
| 1990-91 | 523 | 22 | 23.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cleveland Elementary School.
About Cleveland Elementary School
Cleveland Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school based in Elkhart, Indiana. The student body numbers 519 students, from kindergarten through 6.
Elkhart Community Schools operates 19 schools. Combined enrollment is 10,640 students.
White students make up a majority at Cleveland Elementary School, at 53%. Smaller groups are 19% Black, 15% Hispanic, and 12% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Elkhart County is roughly 74% White. Cleveland Elementary School's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1 at Cleveland Elementary School, with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana fairly closely. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 56% of enrollment.
The allk12 Grade for Cleveland Elementary School is C-. Compared with Indiana public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 15% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Cleveland Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Indiana schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 26.0% and a predicted 35.9%.
County data help place the school in context: in Elkhart County, the median household income is $68,561, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. In all, Elkhart County has 60 public schools and roughly 33,574 students.
Of nearby public schools, Discovery Middle School is the closest, at about 1.5 miles. Cleveland Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Cleveland Elementary School ranks 4th on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Cleveland Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 50 fewer students in 2024-25. The number of students per teacher rose from 12.6 to 15.7 over 4 years.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Elkhart County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,132
Census ACS
Median income
$68,561
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
33,574 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elkhart Community Schools
- Elkhart High SchoolHigh · 3,073 students
- West Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- North Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Roosevelt STEAM AcademyElementary · 531 students
- Pinewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 503 students
- Mary Daly Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
Other schools in Elkhart
- Elkhart High SchoolHigh · 3,073 students
- Concord Community High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Concord Junior High SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- Concord Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 756 students
- Jimtown Intermediate SchoolElementary · 580 students
- West Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
Other Cleveland Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 15 states are named Cleveland Elementary. Cleveland Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 23.
- Cleveland ElementaryClayton, NC · 851 students
- Cleveland ElementaryStockton, CA · 587 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolNorman, OK · 514 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 507 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolCleveland, AL · 499 students
Nearby schools
- Discovery Middle School1.5 mi · 941
- Horizon Elementary School1.7 mi · 679
- Woodland Elementary School1.8 mi · 429
- Elkhart High School2.1 mi · 3,073
- West Side Middle School2.9 mi · 569
- Mary Daly Elementary School3.1 mi · 476
Frequently asked questions
About Cleveland Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Cleveland Elementary School?
Cleveland Elementary School enrolls approximately 519 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Cleveland Elementary School serve?
Cleveland Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cleveland Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cleveland Elementary School is approximately 15.7:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cleveland Elementary School?
At Cleveland Elementary School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 15% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Cleveland Elementary School public or private?
Cleveland Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elkhart Community Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.