Jefferson Elementary School

Jefferson Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in Winona Lake, Indiana, part of Warsaw Community Schools, with 481 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 11 schools in Warsaw Community Schools (6,709 students total), Jefferson Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Jefferson Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Kosciusko County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jefferson Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jefferson Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kosciusko County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,317 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kosciusko County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,029 students), Jefferson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 486 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 74% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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