Navarre Middle School

Navarre Middle School is a junior high of small scale in South Bend, Indiana, operated by South Bend Community School Corp, works with 378 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Navarre Middle School sits 36% below that benchmark.

South Bend Community School Corp comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 13,585 students; Navarre Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Navarre Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 37% Black, 8% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, St. Joseph County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Navarre Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than St. Joseph County's rate of about 46%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Navarre Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 19.4%; actual is 3.7%, a gap of -15.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, St. Joseph County reports 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%. In all, St. Joseph County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), of which Navarre Middle School is one.

Washington High 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 Navarre Middle School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Navarre Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 9.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Navarre Middle School has fell 31%, going from 550 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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