Southwood Jr-Sr High School

Southwood Jr-Sr High School is a senior high of compact scale in Wabash, Indiana, run under MSD Wabash County Schools, works with 445 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Southwood Jr-Sr High School sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

MSD Wabash County Schools runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,256 students. Southwood Jr-Sr High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Southwood Jr-Sr High School lists that nearly all students (91%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wabash County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Southwood Jr-Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.7%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wabash County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,806, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Jr-Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Southwood Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Southwood Jr-Sr High School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

Southwood Jr-Sr High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southwood Jr-Sr High School has grew 4%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 445 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 96% to 91% over that span.

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