Nuner Fine Arts Academy

As a mid-tier elementary campus in South Bend, Indiana, Nuner Fine Arts Academy educates 489 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under South Bend Community School Corp.

South Bend Community School Corp runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 13,585 students. Nuner Fine Arts Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Nuner Fine Arts Academy records that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% White, 17% multiracial, 14% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Nuner Fine Arts Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at Nuner Fine Arts Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Joseph County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Nuner Fine Arts Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.3%; this one comes in at 15.9%, -15.3 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Joseph County shows median household income runs about $66,868, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Nuner Fine Arts Academy is one of 73 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students).

Nearest neighbor: Oaklawn Campus Program, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nuner Fine Arts Academy comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Nuner Fine Arts Academy's enrollment has edged up 48% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 489). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 40% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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