Manchester Intermediate School

Set in Laketon, Indiana, Manchester Intermediate School is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus, run under Manchester Community Schools. It enrolls 285 students across grades 4 through 6. That puts it 52% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Within Manchester Community Schools, which oversees 3 schools and 1,377 students, Manchester Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Manchester Intermediate School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Manchester Intermediate School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Manchester Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Wabash County) reports that median household earnings sit near $66,806, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Wabash County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,096 students), of which Manchester Intermediate School is one.

Manchester Jr-Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Manchester Intermediate School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Manchester Intermediate School's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 382 (now 285). Class-load math has fell: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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