Jefferson Elementary School

Jefferson Elementary School is an elementary campus of close-knit scale in Goshen, Indiana, run under Middlebury Community Schools, serveing 344 students in grades K through 3. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Middlebury Community Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,028 students. Jefferson Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Jefferson Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Jefferson Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Jefferson Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 36.3%; Jefferson Elementary School posts 85.6%, +49.3 points above that line.

In the broader community, Elkhart County reports that median household income runs about $68,561, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Jefferson Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Elkhart County (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students).

Chamberlain Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jefferson Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jefferson Elementary School has decreased 14%, going from 398 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 16% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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