Elm Road Elementary School

Elm Road Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Mishawaka, Indiana, run under Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp, works with 503 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 15 schools in Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp (11,329 students total), Elm Road Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Elm Road Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with St. Joseph County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Elm Road Elementary School records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 42% of students at Elm Road Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Elm Road Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.7%; this one delivers 48.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Joseph County) logs that median household income runs about $66,868, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elm Road Elementary School is one of 73 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students).

Nearest neighbor: Fred J Hums Elementary School, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elm Road Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elm Road Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.0%.

Elm Road Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Elm Road Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 503). White enrollment moved from 80% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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