North Side Middle School

North Side Middle School, a reasonably sized middle school in Elkhart, Indiana, operated by Elkhart Community Schools, teaches 563 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Elkhart Community Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 10,640 students; North Side Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, North Side Middle School logs that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 36% Hispanic, 14% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Elkhart County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Side Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.9%; this one comes in at 17.5%, -17.5 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Elkhart County shows median household income runs about $68,561, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. North Side Middle School is one of 60 public schools in Elkhart County (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students).

The closest other public school is Beardsley Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Side Middle School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 16.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Side Middle School has shrank 21%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 563 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 50% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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