Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club

Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club is one of the very small elementary schools in South Bend, Indiana, part of Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club, with 113 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 74% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Operationally, Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club answers to Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club reports that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 20% White, 19% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of St. Joseph County's rate of about 46%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.3%; actual is 9.5%, a gap of -17.9 points.

In the surrounding community, St. Joseph County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,868, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across St. Joseph County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,614 students), Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Juvenile Justice Center, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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