Harold C Urey Middle School

Harold C Urey Middle School operates as a tight-knit junior high in Walkerton, Indiana, operated by John Glenn School Corporation. Current enrollment sits at 301 students spanning grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Harold C Urey Middle School sits 49% smaller than that benchmark.

John Glenn School Corporation comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,993 students; Harold C Urey Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Harold C Urey Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Harold C Urey Middle School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Harold C Urey Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at Harold C Urey Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Harold C Urey Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Joseph County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,868 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Harold C Urey Middle School is one of 73 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students).

Nearest neighbor: Walkerton Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Harold C Urey Middle School. On composite proficiency, Harold C Urey Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harold C Urey Middle School has edged down 9%, going from 330 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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