Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch

Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Millersburg, Indiana, part of Fairfield Community Schools. Current enrollment sits at 296 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch sits 32% below that benchmark.

Fairfield Community Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,209 students; Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Elkhart County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.0%; this one delivers 48.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for Elkhart County shows median household income runs about $68,561, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch is one.

Fairfield Jr-Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Millersburg Elementary- Middle Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 35%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 296 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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