Pierre Moran Middle School

Pierre Moran Middle School is a cozy junior high in Elkhart, Indiana, one of the schools within Elkhart Community Schools. The school serves 396 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Pierre Moran Middle School sits 33% below that benchmark.

Across the 19 schools in Elkhart Community Schools (10,640 students total), Pierre Moran Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pierre Moran Middle School shows that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 22% White, 11% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Elkhart County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Pierre Moran Middle School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Elkhart County (around 51%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pierre Moran Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.2%; this one delivers 19.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Elkhart County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,561, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Pierre Moran Middle School is one of 60 public schools in Elkhart County (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students).

The closest other public school is Roosevelt STEAM Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pierre Moran Middle School. On composite proficiency, Pierre Moran Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pierre Moran Middle School has fell 24%, going from 518 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 58% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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