Juvenile Justice Center

Juvenile Justice Center is one of the one-room-style all-grades campuss in South Bend, Indiana, run under South Bend Community School Corp, with 16 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 97% leaner than typical.

Juvenile Justice Center is one of 29 schools operated by South Bend Community School Corp, a district that hosts 13,585 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Juvenile Justice Center logs that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 38% Black, 19% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Joseph County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 24.5:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of St. Joseph County's rate of about 46%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Joseph County) logs that 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%. Across St. Joseph County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), Juvenile Justice Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Juvenile Justice Center.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Juvenile Justice Center has grew 14%, going from 14 students in 2018 to 16 in 2024. White enrollment moved from 29% to 38% across the same window.

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