Coquillard Elementary School

Coquillard Elementary School is an intimate K-5 school in South Bend, Indiana, one of the schools within South Bend Community School Corp. The school serves 305 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Coquillard Elementary School sits 30% below that benchmark.

South Bend Community School Corp runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 13,585 students. Coquillard Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Coquillard Elementary School shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% White. By comparison, St. Joseph County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at Coquillard Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Joseph County (around 46%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Coquillard Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 30.5%; this one comes in at 3.3%, -27.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Joseph County put median household earnings sit near $66,868, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Coquillard Elementary School is one of 73 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students).

Dickinson Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Coquillard Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coquillard Elementary School has declined 33%, going from 458 students in 2018 to 305 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 57% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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