LaSalle Academy

LaSalle Academy operates as a low-enrollment junior high in South Bend, Indiana, overseen by South Bend Community School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 461 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 22% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Across the 29 schools in South Bend Community School Corp (13,585 students total), LaSalle Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, LaSalle Academy records that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, St. Joseph County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, LaSalle Academy lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, LaSalle Academy sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 46.1%; actual is 67.4%, +21.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Joseph County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,868, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across St. Joseph County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), LaSalle Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Success Academy Primary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LaSalle Academy. On composite proficiency, LaSalle Academy comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. LaSalle Academy's enrollment has ticked down 44% since 2018, when it stood at 826 (now 461). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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