West Goshen Elementary School

As a moderately sized primary school in Goshen, Indiana, West Goshen Elementary School teaches 387 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within Goshen Community Schools.

Goshen Community Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 6,242 students; West Goshen Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, West Goshen Elementary School reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 8% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Elkhart County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting West Goshen Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Elkhart County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Goshen Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Elkhart County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,561 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Elkhart County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), West Goshen Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Model Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Goshen Elementary School. On composite proficiency, West Goshen Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

West Goshen Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Goshen Elementary School has rose 10%, going from 353 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 32% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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