Model Elementary School

As a mid-tier elementary school in Goshen, Indiana, Model Elementary School caters to 474 students from grades K through 4, one of the schools within Goshen Community Schools.

Within Goshen Community Schools, which oversees 10 schools and 6,242 students, Model Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Model Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Elkhart County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Model Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Elkhart County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Model Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.4%; this one delivers 36.7%.

In the surrounding community, Elkhart County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,561 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Model Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Elkhart County (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students).

Goshen Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Model Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Model Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Model Elementary School's enrollment has declined 20% since 2018, when it stood at 595 (now 474). Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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