York Elementary School

York Elementary School, an intimate primary school in Bristol, Indiana, operated by Middlebury Community Schools, serves 260 students, covering grades K through 3. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Middlebury Community Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,028 students; York Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, York Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at York Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Elkhart County's rate of about 51%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, York Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Elkhart County shows median household income runs about $68,561, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Elkhart County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), of which York Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Heritage Intermediate School, around 3.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around York Elementary School. On composite proficiency, York Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. York Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 288 (now 260). The White share of enrollment shrank from 92% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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