Tippecanoe Valley Middle School

Tippecanoe Valley Middle School is a 6-8 campus of compact scale in Akron, Indiana, one of the schools within Tippecanoe Valley School Corp, serveing 432 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Tippecanoe Valley Middle School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Tippecanoe Valley Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Tippecanoe Valley School Corp, a district that hosts 1,738 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Tippecanoe Valley Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest reads as 14% Hispanic. Compared to Kosciusko County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tippecanoe Valley Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Kosciusko County reports that median household income runs about $75,317, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Tippecanoe Valley Middle School is one of 20 public schools in Kosciusko County (combined enrollment of about 11,029 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tippecanoe Valley High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tippecanoe Valley Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Tippecanoe Valley Middle School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 425 (now 432).

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.