Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 392 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GOSHEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 180393000657
Parkside Elementary School
1202 S 7th St, Goshen, IN 46526 · (574) 533-7765 · Elkhart County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Indiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
223 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 26% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 83% larger than its 4th grade class (48).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Goshen Community Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
26.7%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
44.2%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.3%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Parkside Elementary School
Parkside Elementary School's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkside Elementary School this school | 334 | 66.8% | 32.5% |
| John I Meister Elementary School Hobart | 373 | 72.9% | 14.9% |
| Prairie View Elementary School Goshen | 415 | 72.0% | 39.0% |
| North White Elementary School Monon | 435 | 70.3% | 18.1% |
| West Noble Primary School Ligonier | 350 | 59.7% | N/A |
| Waterford Elementary School Goshen | 400 | 61.3% | 44.4% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Parkside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Elkhart County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #667 of 983 | #22 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.2% | #524 of 986 | #21 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #752 of 986 | #28 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #756 of 1,079 | #32 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #376 of 991 | #10 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.5% | #294 of 996 | #11 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.8% | #220 of 1,058 | #7 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.2% | #246 of 597 | #14 of 28 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
334
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 280
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 18.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 334 | 23.2 | 14.4:1 | 67% (223) |
| 2023-24 | 303 | 23.7 | 12.8:1 | 68% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 252 | 20.1 | 12.5:1 | 62% (155) |
| 2020-21 | 349 | 19 | 18.4:1 | 58% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 20 | 19.7:1 | 62% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 398 | 23 | 17.3:1 | 64% (256) |
| 2010-11 | 439 | 27 | 16.3:1 | 68% (299) |
| 2000-01 | 295 | 17 | 17.4:1 | 54% (159) |
| 1990-91 | 280 | 16 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkside Elementary School.
About Parkside Elementary School
Parkside Elementary School is a small elementary school in Goshen, Indiana, administered by Goshen Community Schools. Classes run from kindergarten through 4, and the school has 334 students. Against the 436-student average for elementary schools in Indiana, enrollment here is 23% lower.
Goshen Community Schools, which runs Parkside Elementary School, has 10 schools and 6,242 students.
Hispanic students are the largest group at Parkside Elementary School, with 46% of enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 43% White, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 20%. By the diversity index, Parkside Elementary School comes in at 59%.
With 23.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Parkside Elementary School was 14.4:1. Among elementary schools in Indiana, the typical ratio is 15.5:1. Parkside Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 67%. Compared with the 51% average for public schools in Elkhart County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against Indiana public elementary schools, Parkside Elementary School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Schools in Indiana with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 28.3%. Parkside Elementary School scores 32.5%.
Federal survey data for Elkhart County show that median household income is about $68,561, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. A total of 60 public schools operate in Elkhart County, serving about 33,574 students.
Chandler Innovation Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Parkside Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 334 was 4% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 349. Students per teacher fell from 18.4 in 2020-21 to 14.4 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Parkside Elementary School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Elkhart County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,132
Census ACS
Median income
$68,561
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
33,574 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Goshen Community Schools
- Goshen High SchoolHigh · 1,717 students
- Goshen Junior High SchoolMiddle · 927 students
- Goshen Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Model Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Prairie View Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Waterford Elementary SchoolElementary · 400 students
Other schools in Goshen
- Goshen High SchoolHigh · 1,717 students
- Fairfield Jr-Sr High SchoolHigh · 944 students
- Goshen Junior High SchoolMiddle · 927 students
- Goshen Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Benton Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
- Model Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
Other Parkside Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 19 states are named Parkside Elementary. Parkside Elementary School is the 20th largest of the 27.
- Parkside Elementary SchoolColumbus, IN · 733 students
- Parkside ElementaryFredericksburg, VA · 946 students
- Parkside Elementary SchoolGEORGETOWN, TX · 807 students
- Parkside ElementaryMorrisville, NC · 730 students
- PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORAL SPRINGS, FL · 713 students
Nearby schools
- Chandler Innovation Academy0.7 mi · 357
- Goshen High School0.7 mi · 1,717
- Goshen Junior High School0.9 mi · 927
- West Goshen Elementary School1.4 mi · 387
- Chamberlain Elementary School1.5 mi · 342
- Waterford Elementary School1.9 mi · 400
Frequently asked questions
About Parkside Elementary SchoolHow large is Parkside Elementary School?
Parkside Elementary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Parkside Elementary School serve?
Parkside Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Parkside Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Parkside Elementary School is approximately 14.4:1 (23 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Parkside Elementary School?
Parkside Elementary School reports a student body of 43% White, 46% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Parkside Elementary School?
Parkside Elementary School is overseen by Goshen Community Schools in Elkhart County.
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