Paul Saylor Elementary School

Paul Saylor Elementary School is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in Valparaiso, Indiana, run under Portage Township Schools, with 274 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% smaller than the state mean of about 436.

Within Portage Township Schools, which oversees 11 schools and 6,519 students, Paul Saylor Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Paul Saylor Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 27% Black, 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the income-and-resources front, Paul Saylor Elementary School shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Porter County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Paul Saylor Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.4%; this one comes in at 25.6%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Porter County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,972 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Porter County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), of which Paul Saylor Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: South Haven Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Paul Saylor Elementary School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 46.7%.

Paul Saylor Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Paul Saylor Elementary School's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 274). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 11% to 27%.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.