Prairie View Elementary School

Prairie View Elementary School is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in Goshen, Indiana, one of the schools within Goshen Community Schools, works with 415 students in grades pre-K through 4.

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

Demographically, Prairie View Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 39% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Prairie View Elementary School records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Prairie View Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Elkhart County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, Prairie View Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 24.6%; actual is 39.0%, +14.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Elkhart County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,561 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Elkhart County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), Prairie View Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Waterford Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prairie View Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prairie View Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.9%.

Prairie View Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie View Elementary School has declined 21%, going from 528 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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