Concord East Side Elementary Sch

Concord East Side Elementary Sch operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Elkhart, Indiana, part of Concord Community Schools. Current enrollment sits at 545 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 25% bigger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Within Concord Community Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 5,212 students, Concord East Side Elementary Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Concord East Side Elementary Sch shows that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 43% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Concord East Side Elementary Sch ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.4%; Concord East Side Elementary Sch posts 51.6%, +14.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Elkhart County shows median household income runs about $68,561, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Elkhart County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), Concord East Side Elementary Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Monger Elementary School, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Concord East Side Elementary Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

Concord East Side Elementary Sch operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Concord East Side Elementary Sch has stayed largely flat, going from 537 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 32% to 43% over that span.

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