Elsie Rogers Elementary School

Located at 56219 Currant Rd, in Mishawaka, Indiana, Elsie Rogers Elementary School is a tight-knit K-5 school that instructs 361 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp.

Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 11,329 students. Elsie Rogers Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Elsie Rogers Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Elsie Rogers Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Joseph County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,868, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Elsie Rogers Elementary School is one of 73 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students).

Nearest neighbor: Schmucker Middle School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elsie Rogers Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elsie Rogers Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Elsie Rogers Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 363 (now 361). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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