Kouts Middle/High School

Kouts Middle/High School operates as an intimate four-year high school in Kouts, Indiana, run under East Porter County School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 381 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 816.

East Porter County School Corp comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,275 students; Kouts Middle/High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Kouts Middle/High School reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Porter County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kouts Middle/High School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.0%; Kouts Middle/High School posts 49.0%, -15.0 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Porter County put median household earnings sit near $87,972, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Porter County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), of which Kouts Middle/High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kouts Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kouts Middle/High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

Kouts Middle/High School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 477 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.