Mary Daly Elementary School

Mary Daly Elementary School operates as an average-sized elementary school in Elkhart, Indiana, one of the schools within Elkhart Community Schools. Current enrollment sits at 476 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Elkhart Community Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 10,640 students; Mary Daly Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Mary Daly Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 24% White, 16% Black, 13% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Mary Daly Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Elkhart County (around 51%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mary Daly Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 30.4%; this one comes in at 10.2%, -20.2 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Elkhart County put median household earnings sit near $68,561, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Elkhart County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), of which Mary Daly Elementary School is one.

West Side Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mary Daly Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mary Daly Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 20.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary Daly Elementary School has ticked down 16%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 476 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 38% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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