Marshall Traditional School

Located at 1433 Byron Drive, in South Bend, Indiana, Marshall Traditional School is a medium-sized K-5 school that hosts 400 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of South Bend Community School Corp.

Marshall Traditional School is one of 29 schools operated by South Bend Community School Corp, a district that teaches 13,585 students overall.

On demographics, Marshall Traditional School lists that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Black, 20% Hispanic, 16% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Marshall Traditional School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marshall Traditional School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.5%; this one delivers 32.2%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for St. Joseph County put median household income runs about $66,868, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Marshall Traditional School is one of 73 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students).

Jackson Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marshall Traditional School. On composite proficiency, Marshall Traditional School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 13.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Marshall Traditional School's enrollment has expanded 19% since 2018, when it stood at 337 (now 400). White enrollment moved from 61% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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