Pine Elementary School

As a mid-sized primary school in Michigan City, Indiana, Pine Elementary School enrolls 396 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Michigan City Area Schools.

Michigan City Area Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,030 students; Pine Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Pine Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 38% Black, 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Porter County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pine Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.5%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Porter County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,972 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Pine Elementary School is one of 55 public schools in Porter County (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students).

Nearest neighbor: Knapp Elementary School, around 2.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Pine Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Elementary School has shrank 12%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 43% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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