Summary:
Families in the Warsaw area have two middle schools to choose from: Lakeview Middle School and Edgewood Middle School, both serving grades 7–8 within Warsaw Community Schools. Together they enroll 1,014 students — 545 at Lakeview and 469 at Edgewood, making Lakeview about 16% larger. The district overall ranks 118th of 374 Indiana districts, in the 68th percentile with 3 stars, but that district-wide figure masks real differences between the two campuses.
Edgewood is the stronger overall performer. It earned 4 stars in each of the last three years and consistently outranks Lakeview, placing 122nd of 486 schools in 2025–2026 (75th percentile) versus Lakeview's 153rd (69th percentile, 3 stars). Edgewood's biggest advantage is math: in 2025–2026, 44.65% of its students were proficient in math compared with 36.48% at Lakeview, and it exceeded the district in math both years while Lakeview fell below it. Lakeview's strength is English language arts, where it edged ahead of Edgewood in 2025–2026 in all grades (46.2% vs 44.04%) and in both 7th and 8th grade — though Edgewood led in ELA the prior year, so that edge isn't consistent. Edgewood also has a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (11.7 vs 12.6), while free/reduced lunch rates (48.61% vs 50.28%) and per-pupil spending ($11,595 vs $11,455) are nearly identical.
Both schools saw test scores and rankings slip from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with Edgewood's decline larger. Both report identical chronic absenteeism of 12.6%, above the district's 9.7% but below the state's 16.7%. Both also posted extraordinary Biology End-of-Course proficiency, but that likely reflects a small, select group of test-takers rather than all students. In short, Edgewood performs above the district average; Lakeview sits closer to it, with math as its clearest area for improvement.
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