Taylor Middle School

Taylor Middle School, a cozy middle school in Kokomo, Indiana, one of the schools within Taylor Community School Corp, enrolls 368 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Taylor Middle School sits 38% below that benchmark.

Taylor Community School Corp comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,205 students; Taylor Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Taylor Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest reads as 13% multiracial, 12% Black, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Howard County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Taylor Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Howard County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Taylor Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.2%; this one delivers 23.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Howard County) shows that median household earnings sit near $64,027, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Taylor Middle School is one of 29 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 12,786 students).

The closest other public school is Taylor High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Taylor Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Taylor Middle School has grew 35%, going from 273 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 73% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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