Southwood Elementary School

Southwood Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Wabash, Indiana, part of MSD Wabash County Schools, works with 458 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MSD Wabash County Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,256 students; Southwood Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Southwood Elementary School records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Southwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wabash County shows median household earnings sit near $66,806, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Wabash County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,096 students), of which Southwood Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Southwood Jr-Sr High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Southwood Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southwood Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.8%.

Southwood Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 95% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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