Morgan Township Elementary School

Morgan Township Elementary School is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Valparaiso, Indiana, part of East Porter County School Corp, serveing 336 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Morgan Township Elementary School sits 23% below that benchmark.

East Porter County School Corp comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,275 students; Morgan Township Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Morgan Township Elementary School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 14% of students at Morgan Township Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Porter County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Morgan Township Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Porter County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,972 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Porter County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), of which Morgan Township Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Morgan Township Middle/High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Morgan Township Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morgan Township Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.6%.

Morgan Township Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Morgan Township Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 336). Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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