Summary:
ZIP code 46614, on South Bend's south side, contains four schools serving about 1,742 students: three elementary schools — Monroe Elementary School, Marshall Traditional School, and Premier Arts Academy — and one middle school, Jackson Middle School, with grade spans reaching from prekindergarten through 8th grade and no high schools in the set. Three schools belong to South Bend Community School Corp, while Premier Arts Academy operates as its own district.
Marshall Traditional School is the academic leader here, with the highest all-grade ELA (26.97%), Math (29.88%), and Science (27.45%) scores, the only star rating in the ZIP (1 star, 29th percentile), the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (46.75%), and the lowest student–teacher ratio (11.9). Premier Arts Academy stands out differently: its chronic absenteeism of 11.8% is below the state's 16.7% and far below the South Bend district's 40.3%, and its $11,790 per-student spending is the lowest, yet its academics remain modest (8th percentile, 15.84% ELA, 12.94% Math). At the other end, Jackson Middle School is the largest school (537 students) with the highest free/reduced lunch (72.25%), the highest spending ($16,978), and just 1.90% all-grade Math. Monroe Elementary School has the highest absenteeism (46.2%), the highest student–teacher ratio (14.9), and the lowest ELA (5.24%).
Math is the clearest weakness across the group, averaging 12.17% and dropping as low as 1.90%; only Marshall approaches a stronger result. Spending does not track with outcomes here — the highest-spending school posts the weakest Math, while the lowest-spending school outperforms two others in all three subjects. Rank trends are also discouraging: Marshall moved 32 → 36 → 29 percentile over three years, Premier fell 21 → 17 → 8, Jackson sits at 5 → 1 → 2, and Monroe slid 4 → 2 → 1.
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