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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 46544

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At a glance

Schools

5,108

Students

Districts

Top rankedVirgil I Grissom Middle School129^th of 486 Indiana middle schools

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Smallest classes

Cavemen Academy of Virtual Excellence 13.5 students per teacher

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Summary:

ZIP code 46544 in Mishawaka, Indiana contains ten public schools — seven elementary, one middle school and two high schools — serving about 5,100 students, and they divide between two districts that perform very differently. Seven schools belong to School City of Mishawaka (3,561 students), ranked 272 of 374 districts statewide, while three belong to Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp (1,547 students), ranked 34 of 374.

That district line is the strongest pattern in the data. PHM's Elm Road Elementary School (47.13% ELA, 53.64% math, 7.0% chronic absenteeism) and Meadow's Edge Elementary School rank at the 68th and 50th percentiles, and Virgil I Grissom Middle School, the ZIP's top-ranked school at 129 of 486, posts the highest ELA figure here at 58.67%. Among Mishawaka schools, Twin Branch Elementary School (57.14% math, nearly double its district's 29.19%) and Fred J. Hums Elementary School (48.06% math, plus the ZIP's best 6th-grade results) clearly outperform their district, but Lasalle Elementary School, Emmons Elementary School and Beiger Elementary School all rank at or below the 29th percentile. The elementary ELA gap between Elm Road and Lasalle is 29.2 points; elementary math spans 32 points.

Attendance tracks results more closely than spending or class size: absenteeism runs from 7.0% at Elm Road to 42.8% at Mishawaka High School, the highest in the data set and 2.6 times the state rate, at the ZIP's largest and highest-spending school ($12,758 per student). Cavemen Academy of Virtual Excellence is the clearest outlier, with a 51.9% graduation rate against the state's 89.7% and SAT math proficiency of 3.7%. Momentum matters too: Twin Branch (82nd to 71st to 63rd percentile) and Hums (78th to 67th to 52nd) are trending down even while beating their district.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing (2026)	SAT Mathematics (2026)	ILEARN English Language Arts (2026)							ILEARN Math (2026)							ILEARN Science (2026)			ILEARN Social Studies (2026)	ILEARN Biology (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing 11th Grade	SAT Mathematics 11th Grade	ILEARN English Language Arts 3rd Grade	ILEARN English Language Arts 4th Grade	ILEARN English Language Arts 5th Grade	ILEARN English Language Arts 6th Grade	ILEARN English Language Arts 7th Grade	ILEARN English Language Arts 8th Grade	ILEARN English Language Arts All Grades	ILEARN Math 3rd Grade	ILEARN Math 4th Grade	ILEARN Math 5th Grade	ILEARN Math 6th Grade	ILEARN Math 7th Grade	ILEARN Math 8th Grade	ILEARN Math All Grades	ILEARN Science 4th Grade	ILEARN Science 6th Grade	ILEARN Science All Grades	ILEARN Social Studies 5th Grade	ILEARN Biology End of Course	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Beiger Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-6	1600 E Third St	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	School City of Mishawaka	No	No	No	Yes	(574) 254-4700	504	31	16.0	30.0%	346 (68.7%)	44 (8.7%)	55 (10.9%)	1 (0.2%)	2 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	56 (11.1%)	30.2	716^th of 1015 public elementary schools	29.5%		44.4	576^th of 1005 public elementary schools	42.7%	140			33.3	16.3	30.9	12.7			23.5	49.2	36.7	30.9	23.8			35.2	32.7	25.4	28.6	34.6		$12,348	$1,371	$10,977
Emmons Elementary School	Public	K-6	1306 S Main St	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	School City of Mishawaka	No	No	No	Yes	(574) 254-4600	422	29	14.8	42.9%	194 (46.0%)	103 (24.4%)	55 (13.0%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	69 (16.4%)	21.1	815^th of 1015 public elementary schools	19.7%		21.8	801^st of 1005 public elementary schools	20.3%	14			31.8	31.9	8.3	18.0			22.4	24.2	38.3	18.3	22.0			25.1	29.8	24.0	26.8	15.3		$11,299	$2,206	$9,093
Fred J Hums Elementary School	Public	K-6	3208 Harrison Rd	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	School City of Mishawaka	No	No	No	No	(574) 254-3800	327	18	17.8	25.1%	234 (71.6%)	20 (6.1%)	39 (11.9%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)	31 (9.5%)	53	485^th of 1015 public elementary schools	52.2%		65.8	330^th of 1005 public elementary schools	67.2%	155			31.4	23.2	47.3	59.1			39.3	41.2	30.4	60.0	63.6			48.1	23.2	56.8	38.0	45.5		$10,385	$927	$9,458
Lasalle Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-6	1511 Milburn Blvd	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	School City of Mishawaka	No	No	No	Yes	(574) 254-4800	519	32	16.0	43.2%	289 (55.7%)	95 (18.3%)	60 (11.6%)	5 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	70 (13.5%)	17.8	840^th of 1015 public elementary schools	17.2%		19.2	820^th of 1005 public elementary schools	18.4%	20			16.2	19.1	14.3	22.4			18.0	21.6	26.9	25.5	27.6			25.2	25.4	20.7	23.2	23.2		$11,426	$2,282	$9,143
Mishawaka High School	Public	9-12	1202 Lincolnway E	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	School City of Mishawaka	No	No	No	No	(574) 254-7300	1,327	90	14.7	31.3%	849 (64.0%)	190 (14.3%)	150 (11.3%)	8 (0.6%)	9 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	121 (9.1%)	33.4	285^th of 415 public high schools	31.3%		41.5	257^th of 429 public high schools	40.1%	28	38.8	16.5																			32.0	$12,758	$650	$12,108
Twin Branch Elementary School	Public	K-6	3810 Lincoln Way E	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	School City of Mishawaka	No	No	No	No	(574) 254-3500	300	21	14.5	38.0%	236 (78.7%)	13 (4.3%)	23 (7.7%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.3%)	1 (0.3%)	26 (8.7%)	61.9	375^th of 1015 public elementary schools	63.1%		69.6	293^rd of 1005 public elementary schools	70.8%	82			51.0	27.8	35.9	38.6			39.0	55.1	55.6	52.8	65.9			57.1	41.7	50.0	46.3	41.5		$10,999	$749	$10,250
Cavemen Academy of Virtual Excellence	Public, Virtual	6-12	1402 S Main St.	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	School City of Mishawaka	No	(n/a)	Yes	(n/a)	(574) 254-4500	162	12	13.5	67.9%	111 (68.5%)	12 (7.4%)	10 (6.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	29 (17.9%)	14.7	353^rd of 415 public high schools	14.9%					(n/a)	29.6	3.7						7.7	16.7						0.0	4.2
Meadow's Edge Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	16333 Kern Rd	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp	No	No	No	Yes	(574) 255-9347	382	27	14.0	63.4%	211 (55.2%)	69 (18.1%)	48 (12.6%)	9 (2.4%)	2 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	43 (11.3%)	51.2	508^th of 1015 public elementary schools	50.0%		50.9	502^nd of 1005 public elementary schools	50.0%	6			44.6	34.8	43.5				40.7	50.0	40.6	47.8				45.9	42.0		42.0	37.7		$10,737	$1,319	$9,417
Elm Road Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	59400 Elm Rd	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp	No	No	No	Yes	(574) 259-3743	503	31	16.0	42.1%	355 (70.6%)	47 (9.3%)	51 (10.1%)	5 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	45 (8.9%)	67	321^st of 1015 public elementary schools	68.4%		66.8	321^st of 1005 public elementary schools	68.1%				40.2	51.2	50.6				47.1	54.4	57.0	49.4				53.6	52.3		52.3	50.6		$10,150	$834	$9,316
Virgil I Grissom Middle School	Public	6-8	13881 Kern Rd	Mishawaka	46544	St. Joseph County	Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp	No	No	No	No	(574) 633-4061	662	43	15.5	50.6%	450 (68.0%)	58 (8.8%)	81 (12.2%)	8 (1.2%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	63 (9.5%)	71.3	129^th of 486 public middle schools	73.5%		71.3	120^th of 480 public middle schools	75.0%	9						47.1	51.0	58.7	52.6				38.4	37.5	36.9	37.6		44.2	44.2			$11,165	$827	$10,338

Cities Near Zip Code 46544

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Mishawaka	0.73 mi	19	221^st
South Bend	2.59 mi	42	383^rd
Osceola	4.11 mi	1	95^th
Granger	5.89 mi	5	7^th
Elkhart	6.96 mi	32	350^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Indiana Department of Education.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS: Not all boundaries are included. We make every effort to ensure that boundaries are up-to-date. But it's important to note that these are approximations and are for general informational purposes only. To verify legal descriptions of boundaries or school locations, contact your local tax assessor's office and/or school district.