Elkhart Community Schools

Elkhart Community Schools is a 17-school district serving roughly 10,279 students across 13 elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school, with no alternative schools, and it ranks 317th of 374 Indiana districts—15th percentile, 1 star. Enrollment is concentrated: Elkhart High School alone enrolls 3,073 students (29.9% of the district), elementaries enroll 5,678 (55.2%), and middle schools 1,528 (14.9%). No school currently holds 3 stars; the top rating is 2 stars, held by four schools.

Among standouts, Riverview Elementary has the highest elementary all-grade ELA (41.04%) and science (38.71%) proficiency and the second-highest math (48.55%), with low chronic absenteeism at 13.5%, though its rank slipped from 60th percentile/3 stars to 47th percentile/2 stars. Monger Elementary leads elementary math at 51.25% despite a 67.01% free/reduced lunch rate. Mary Feeser Elementary is improving (26 → 30 → 35 percentile) with the lowest per-student spending ($11,184), and Eastwood Elementary has the lowest FRL rate (44.86%) and lowest absenteeism (11.3%).

The biggest concerns are Mary Beck Elementary (4.29% ELA, 0 stars), Beardsley Elementary (3rd percentile, 0 stars), Mary Daly Elementary (4th percentile, highest absenteeism among elementaries at 28.7%), and middle schools North Side (11th percentile) and Pierre Moran (14th percentile). The high school graduates 91.3% (above the state's 89.7%) but posts only 35.29% SAT ELA and 12% SAT math proficiency with 39.4% chronic absenteeism, far above the state's 16.7%. Unusually high middle-school Biology End-of-Course scores likely reflect a selective group of test-takers rather than whole-school science performance.