Summary:
Elkhart High School is the only high school serving Elkhart Community Schools, so it is the single option for local families with students in grades 9–12. It enrolls 3,073 students at 2608 California Rd in Elkhart, making it a large high school by Indiana standards. Because there is no second high school in the district, there is no within-district peer comparison available; the district's high school figures mirror the school's own results. The broader district is ranked 317th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 15th percentile with a 1-star rating.
The school's clearest strength is completion. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 91.3%, which is above Indiana's 89.7% rate. About half the student body — 50.18% — participates in free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $15,150, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.4:1. Those resource figures do not point to unusually large classes or unusually low spending, so the school's challenges appear to lie elsewhere.
Those challenges are significant. Chronic absenteeism stands at 39.4%, well above the district's 28.2% and more than double Indiana's 16.7%. Proficiency results are also low: in 2025–2026, 35.29% of students met the SAT reading/writing benchmark (state: 51.9%) and 12% met the math benchmark (state: 25.6%). Biology proficiency was 24.07%, below the district's 29.77%. Year over year, SAT math improved slightly (up 1.36 percentage points), while reading/writing fell 5.48 points and biology dipped 1.40 points. The school ranked 320th of 415 high schools in 2025–2026, at the 23rd percentile with 1 star — the same star rating it held in 2024–2025 and 2023–2024. In short, graduation is a relative bright spot, but attendance and college-readiness measures need attention.
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