Enrollment
385
Elementary
DISTRICT 417 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 180327000434
Mary Beck Elementary School
818 McDonald St, Elkhart, IN 46516 · (574) 295-4830 · Elkhart County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL385 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Indiana public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
210 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 16% larger than its 6th grade class (51).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
10.0%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
6.2%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.9%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mary Beck Elementary School
Mary Beck Elementary School's state test result (8.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Beck Elementary School this school | 385 | 54.5% | 8.2% |
| Clarence Farrington School 61 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | 451 | 58.5% | 8.3% |
| Roosevelt STEAM Academy Elkhart | 531 | 56.5% | 23.7% |
| Anderson Elementary School Anderson | 496 | 58.7% | 8.1% |
| Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | 275 | 57.5% | 13.2% |
| Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School Indianapolis | 472 | 58.1% | 14.7% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mary Beck Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Elkhart County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.2% | #969 of 983 | #36 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.2% | #978 of 986 | #36 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #963 of 986 | #36 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 385 | #641 of 1,079 | #26 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #668 of 991 | #19 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #327 of 996 | #14 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.5% | #491 of 1,058 | #20 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.0% | #493 of 597 | #26 of 28 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
385
+86 (+29%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 380
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 385 | 24 | 16.0:1 | 55% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 355 | 23 | 15.4:1 | 64% (227) |
| 2022-23 | 384 | 25 | 15.4:1 | 89% (343) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 20 | 14.9:1 | 83% (247) |
| 2017-18 | 401 | 16 | 25.0:1 | 74% (295) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 29 | 17.8:1 | 86% (443) |
| 2010-11 | 446 | 31 | 14.4:1 | 94% (420) |
| 2000-01 | 470 | 32 | 14.7:1 | 79% (372) |
| 1990-91 | 380 | 22 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mary Beck Elementary School.
About Mary Beck Elementary School
Mary Beck Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Elkhart, Indiana, administered by Elkhart Community Schools. In all, 385 students attend the school in pre-K through 6.
Mary Beck Elementary School is one of 19 schools in Elkhart Community Schools, which enrolls 10,640 students in total.
More than half of the students at Mary Beck Elementary School are Hispanic (60%). Next come 23% Black, 10% White, and 7% multiracial. That compares with about 20% Hispanic among all Elkhart County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 58%.
Its ratio of 16.0:1 is based on 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana. In all, 55% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Mary Beck Elementary School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 0% of Indiana public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places Mary Beck Elementary School in the bottom 10% of Indiana schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 28.7 points below it (8.2% actual, 36.9% predicted).
In the surrounding county, Elkhart County, the median household earns about $68,561 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Counting Mary Beck Elementary School, Elkhart County has 60 public schools.
Elkhart Alternative Education sits less than a tenth of a mile from Mary Beck Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Mary Beck Elementary School ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 299 (2020-21) to 385 (2024-25). There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.0:1) than in 2020-21 (14.9:1).
The allk12 page for Mary Beck Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Elkhart County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,132
Census ACS
Median income
$68,561
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
33,574 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elkhart Community Schools
- Elkhart High SchoolHigh · 3,073 students
- West Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- North Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Roosevelt STEAM AcademyElementary · 531 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Pinewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 503 students
Other schools in Elkhart
- Elkhart High SchoolHigh · 3,073 students
- Concord Community High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Concord Junior High SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- Concord Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 756 students
- Jimtown Intermediate SchoolElementary · 580 students
- West Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
Nearby schools
- Elkhart Alternative Education0.1 mi · 205
- Excel Center - Elkhart0.6 mi · 260
- Roosevelt STEAM Academy0.7 mi · 531
- Pierre Moran Middle School0.8 mi · 396
- Hawthorne Early Learning Center1.1 mi · 156
- Monger Elementary School1.2 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About Mary Beck Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mary Beck Elementary School?
Mary Beck Elementary School enrolls approximately 385 students in grades PK-06.
Is Mary Beck Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mary Beck Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Mary Beck Elementary School have?
Mary Beck Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
How diverse is Mary Beck Elementary School?
Mary Beck Elementary School reports a student body of 10% White, 60% Hispanic, 23% Black, 7% Two or more.
What district is Mary Beck Elementary School in?
Mary Beck Elementary School is part of Elkhart Community Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.