Rowena Kyle Elementary School

Rowena Kyle Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in Portage, Indiana, overseen by Portage Township Schools, with 437 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Rowena Kyle Elementary School shows that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 40% Hispanic, 14% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Rowena Kyle Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Rowena Kyle Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at Rowena Kyle Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Rowena Kyle Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Porter County) logs that median household earnings sit near $87,972, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Porter County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students), of which Rowena Kyle Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Willowcreek Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rowena Kyle Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rowena Kyle Elementary School has shrank 3%, going from 452 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 53% to 42%.

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