Paramount School of Excellence South Bend

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in South Bend, Indiana, Paramount School of Excellence South Bend hosts 476 students from grades K through 7, part of Paramount School of Excellence South Bend.

Paramount School of Excellence South Bend is a school of Paramount School of Excellence South Bend, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Paramount School of Excellence South Bend records that the largest single group is Black, at 60% of enrollment; the rest consists of 15% White, 13% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Joseph County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Paramount School of Excellence South Bend performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.2%, the actual is 20.2%, a residual of -2.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for St. Joseph County put the typical household earns roughly $66,868 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Paramount School of Excellence South Bend is one of 73 public schools in St. Joseph County (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students).

Nearest neighbor: Edison Middle School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paramount School of Excellence South Bend ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Paramount School of Excellence South Bend is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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