Edgewood Elementary School

Edgewood Elementary School is one of the small elementary-level communitys in Michigan City, Indiana, run under Michigan City Area Schools, with 350 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Edgewood Elementary School is one of 13 schools operated by Michigan City Area Schools, a district that works with 5,030 students overall.

Demographically, Edgewood Elementary School reports that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% White, 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Edgewood Elementary School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of LaPorte County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Edgewood Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.4%; this one delivers 24.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for LaPorte County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,055 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Edgewood Elementary School is one of 38 public schools in LaPorte County (combined enrollment of about 15,515 students).

Barker Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edgewood Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Edgewood Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edgewood Elementary School has ticked up 6%, going from 329 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025.

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