F Willard Crichfield Elementary

Located at 336 W Johnson Rd, in LaPorte, Indiana, F Willard Crichfield Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community that teaches 459 students (grades pre-K through 4), run under La Porte Community School Corp.

Within La Porte Community School Corp, which oversees 12 schools and 6,089 students, F Willard Crichfield Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, F Willard Crichfield Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder looks like 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than LaPorte County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, F Willard Crichfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (LaPorte County) records that median household income runs about $71,055, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across LaPorte County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,515 students), F Willard Crichfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LaPorte Juvenile Correctional, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), F Willard Crichfield Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.7%.

F Willard Crichfield Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at F Willard Crichfield Elementary has edged down 15%, going from 539 students in 2018 to 459 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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