Southwestern Middle School

Southwestern Middle School, a close-knit 6-8 campus in Lafayette, Indiana, operated by Tippecanoe School Corp, teaches 491 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Within Tippecanoe School Corp, which oversees 20 schools and 13,663 students, Southwestern Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Southwestern Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. Compared to Tippecanoe County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Southwestern Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Southwestern Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.7%; Southwestern Middle School posts 27.3%, -21.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Tippecanoe County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,636 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Tippecanoe County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,655 students), Southwestern Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mintonye Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Southwestern Middle School. On composite proficiency, Southwestern Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Southwestern Middle School's enrollment has rose 9% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 491). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 80% to 75%.

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