Cleveland Elementary School

Cleveland Elementary School is an elementary school of average-sized scale in Elkhart, Indiana, one of the schools within Elkhart Community Schools, teacheing 519 students in grades K through 6.

Elkhart Community Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 10,640 students; Cleveland Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cleveland Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Black, 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Elkhart County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Cleveland Elementary School reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cleveland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Elkhart County) shows that median household earnings sit near $68,561, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Elkhart County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), of which Cleveland Elementary School is one.

Discovery Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cleveland Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 35.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Cleveland Elementary School's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 664 (now 519). The White share of enrollment edged down from 61% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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