Edison Middle School

Edison Middle School is a public middle school located in South Bend, Indiana, serving grades 6-8 with a student population of 319. The school is part of the South Bend Community School Corporation, which is ranked 310 out of 380 districts in Indiana and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger. Unfortunately, Edison Middle School has consistently ranked in the bottom 10-20% of Indiana middle schools over the past several years, with a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Edison Middle School faces significant challenges, including extremely high chronic absenteeism rates ranging from 37.7% to 52.0% in recent years, significantly higher than the district and state averages. Academically, Edison students perform well below their peers across the state and district in English Language Arts, Math, and Science proficiency on the ILEARN assessments. For example, in 2024-2025, only 12.72% of Edison students were proficient in ELA compared to 22.21% in the district and 40.3-42.7% statewide. In Math, only 10.03% of Edison students were proficient compared to 18.82% in the district and 34.5-51.5% statewide. Additionally, Edison Middle School has a very high percentage of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, ranging from 68.97% to 83.46% in recent years, indicating a high-poverty student population.

When comparing Edison Middle School to other nearby schools in the South Bend Community School Corporation, such as Navarre Middle School, Jackson Middle School, Dickinson Fine Arts Academy, and Jefferson Traditional School, Edison consistently performs worse academically and has higher chronic absenteeism rates. In contrast, when comparing Edison to high-performing schools outside the district, such as Discovery Middle School and Virgil I. Grissom Middle School in the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, the academic performance gap is even more stark.