Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch

Set in Granger, Indiana, Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, overseen by Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. It educates 471 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch is one of 15 schools operated by Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp, a district that enrolls 11,329 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch logs that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest reads as 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Joseph County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Joseph County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,868 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across St. Joseph County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Northpoint Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 68.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary Frank Harris Elementary Sch has climbed 11%, going from 425 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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