Parkside Elementary School

Parkside Elementary School is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Goshen, Indiana, overseen by Goshen Community Schools, hosting 334 students in grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 23% smaller than typical.

Goshen Community Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 6,242 students; Parkside Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Parkside Elementary School logs that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 43% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Parkside Elementary School records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Elkhart County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, Parkside Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Elkhart County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,561 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Elkhart County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), of which Parkside Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chandler Innovation Academy, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkside Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 394 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 50% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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