Morgan Township Middle/High School

Morgan Township Middle/High School is one of the cozy secondary schools in Valparaiso, Indiana, operated by East Porter County School Corp, with 440 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Morgan Township Middle/High School sits 46% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in East Porter County School Corp (2,275 students total), Morgan Township Middle/High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Morgan Township Middle/High School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Morgan Township Middle/High School logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Morgan Township Middle/High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 12% of students at Morgan Township Middle/High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Porter County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Morgan Township Middle/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 53.9%, a residual of -12.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Porter County put the typical household earns roughly $87,972 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Porter County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), Morgan Township Middle/High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Morgan Township Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morgan Township Middle/High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Morgan Township Middle/High School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.