Northview Elementary School

Set in Gas City, Indiana, Northview Elementary School is a large K-5 school, part of Mississinewa Community School Corp. It hosts 673 students across grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Northview Elementary School sits 54% larger than that benchmark.

Northview Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Mississinewa Community School Corp, a district that enrolls 2,453 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northview Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 79%; the rest breaks down as 10% multiracial, 9% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Northview Elementary School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 68% of students at Northview Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Grant County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $53,522 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Northview Elementary School is one of 30 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 10,743 students).

Mississinewa High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northview Elementary School at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 21.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 666 students in 2018 compared to 673 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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