Goshen Intermediate School

As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Goshen, Indiana, Goshen Intermediate School educates 889 students from grades 5 through 6, one of the schools within Goshen Community Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 50% above the state mean of about 594.

Goshen Community Schools runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,242 students. Goshen Intermediate School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Goshen Intermediate School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 36% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Elkhart County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Goshen Intermediate School shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Goshen Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Elkhart County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Goshen Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.1%; this one delivers 31.4%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Elkhart County put the typical household earns roughly $68,561 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Elkhart County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), of which Goshen Intermediate School is one.

Model Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Goshen Intermediate School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

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