Washington Twp Elementary School

Washington Twp Elementary School operates as a modestly sized elementary campus in Valparaiso, Indiana, one of the schools within East Porter County School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 339 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Washington Twp Elementary School sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in East Porter County School Corp (2,275 students total), Washington Twp Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Washington Twp Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment; the rest consists of 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Washington Twp Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.7%; actual is 40.8%, a gap of -14.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Porter County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,972 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Washington Twp Elementary School is one of 55 public schools in Porter County (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students).

Washington Twp Middle/High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Washington Twp Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Washington Twp Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Washington Twp Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 339). Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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