Lasalle Elementary School

Set in Mishawaka, Indiana, Lasalle Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, part of School City of Mishawaka. It serves 519 students across grades pre-K through 6.

School City of Mishawaka runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,051 students. Lasalle Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lasalle Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 18% Black, 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Joseph County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lasalle Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lasalle Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.0%; actual is 21.9%, a gap of -23.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Joseph County) logs that median household income runs about $66,868, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, St. Joseph County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), of which Lasalle Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oaklawn Campus Program, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lasalle Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Lasalle Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 12%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 62% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.