Kingsbury Elementary School

Set in LaPorte, Indiana, Kingsbury Elementary School is a small primary school, overseen by La Porte Community School Corp. It caters to 294 students across grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Kingsbury Elementary School sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

La Porte Community School Corp comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,089 students; Kingsbury Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Kingsbury Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at Kingsbury Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below LaPorte County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kingsbury Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for LaPorte County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,055 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, LaPorte County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,515 students), of which Kingsbury Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: LaPorte Middle School, around 3.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kingsbury Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kingsbury Elementary School has decreased 34%, going from 446 students in 2018 to 294 in 2025.

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