Enrollment
311
Elementary
DISTRICT 359 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTAGE TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS·NCES 180915001516
South Haven Elementary School
395 W Midway Dr, Valparaiso, IN 46383 · (219) 763-8045 · Porter County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of Indiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
148 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
37.2%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
42.1%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like South Haven Elementary School
South Haven Elementary School's state test result (33.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Haven Elementary School this school | 311 | 47.6% | 33.6% |
| Riley Elementary School LaPorte | 291 | 48.8% | 40.3% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Valparaiso | 285 | 52.3% | 71.3% |
| Dayton Elementary School Dayton | 390 | 48.5% | 51.2% |
| John Simatovich Elementary School Valparaiso | 280 | 45.7% | 55.7% |
| Willard Shambaugh Elementary Sch Fort Wayne | 266 | 51.9% | 37.4% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where South Haven Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Porter County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #646 of 983 | #27 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #560 of 986 | #25 of 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #517 of 986 | #25 of 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #806 of 1,079 | #24 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #385 of 991 | #10 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.8% | #439 of 996 | #13 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.6% | #655 of 1,058 | #8 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #363 of 597 | #12 of 21 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
311
+33 (+12%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 370
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 8.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 311 | 21.5 | 14.5:1 | 48% (148) |
| 2023-24 | 288 | 19.5 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 281 | 15.5 | 18.1:1 | 64% (181) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 32 | 8.7:1 | 59% (163) |
| 2017-18 | 344 | 21 | 16.4:1 | 60% (208) |
| 2015-16 | 352 | 20 | 17.6:1 | 56% (197) |
| 2010-11 | 418 | 19 | 22.0:1 | 59% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 441 | 22 | 20.1:1 | 31% (135) |
| 1990-91 | 370 | 18 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for South Haven Elementary School.
About South Haven Elementary School
As a small elementary school, South Haven Elementary School serves students in Valparaiso, Indiana. The school counted 311 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. The school is 29% below the average for elementary schools in Indiana.
South Haven Elementary School is a school in Portage Township Schools. The district has 11 schools and 6,519 students.
More than half of enrollment at South Haven Elementary School is White: 67%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 84% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, South Haven Elementary School scores 51%.
South Haven Elementary School reports a ratio of 14.5 students per teacher, from 21.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Indiana, the average ratio is 15.5:1. Lunch program data show 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 34% average for public schools in Porter County is 14 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, South Haven Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 24% of Indiana public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, South Haven Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Indiana schools: 33.6% actual against 41.9% predicted.
In Porter County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $87,972 a year, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Porter County number 55, with about 25,813 students.
Paul Saylor Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from South Haven Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around South Haven Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. South Haven Elementary School comes in 4th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put South Haven Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment was 311 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 278. The ratio was 8.7:1 in 2020-21 and 14.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Porter County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
174,818
Census ACS
Median income
$87,972
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
25,813 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Portage Township Schools
- Portage High SchoolHigh · 2,163 students
- Willowcreek Middle SchoolMiddle · 920 students
- William Fegely Middle SchoolMiddle · 566 students
- Rowena Kyle Elementary SchoolElementary · 437 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
- Wallace Aylesworth ElementaryElementary · 401 students
Other schools in Valparaiso
- Valparaiso High SchoolHigh · 2,089 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 823 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 632 students
- Cooks Corners Elementary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- Heavilin Elementary SchoolElementary · 479 students
- Flint Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
Other South Haven Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named South Haven Elementary. South Haven Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- South Haven ElementaryLexington, TN · 341 students
- South Haven ElemSouth Haven, KS · 100 students
Nearby schools
- Paul Saylor Elementary School0.6 mi · 274
- Portage High School1.4 mi · 2,163
- Rowena Kyle Elementary School2.4 mi · 437
- John Simatovich Elementary School2.6 mi · 280
- Ethel R Jones Elementary School2.7 mi · 363
- Central Elementary School3.0 mi · 409
Frequently asked questions
About South Haven Elementary SchoolHow many students attend South Haven Elementary School?
South Haven Elementary School enrolls approximately 311 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does South Haven Elementary School serve?
South Haven Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does South Haven Elementary School have?
South Haven Elementary School employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
What is the student diversity at South Haven Elementary School?
Student demographics at South Haven Elementary School are roughly 67% White, 18% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is South Haven Elementary School public or private?
South Haven Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Portage Township Schools.
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