Marquette Montessori Academy

Marquette Montessori Academy is a reasonably sized elementary campus in South Bend, Indiana, one of the schools within South Bend Community School Corp. The school educates 431 students in grades pre-K through 8.

South Bend Community School Corp runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 13,585 students. Marquette Montessori Academy is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Marquette Montessori Academy records that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Black, 16% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 50% of students at Marquette Montessori Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Marquette Montessori Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.1%; this one delivers 28.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for St. Joseph County indicate median household income runs about $66,868, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Joseph County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), Marquette Montessori Academy is one campus in the mix.

LaSalle Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marquette Montessori Academy at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 23.7%.

Marquette Montessori Academy operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 49% to 33%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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