Southridge Elementary School

Southridge Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary campus in Highland, Indiana, one of the schools within School Town of Highland, instructs 439 students, covering grades K through 5.

School Town of Highland runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,165 students. Southridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Southridge Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 34% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Southridge Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 47.5%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Lake County's 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), Southridge Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Highland Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southridge Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southridge Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 13%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 439 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 64% to 53%.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.