Summary:
ZIP code 46617 is served by a single middle school: Jefferson Traditional School, a grades 6–8 campus with 591 students in South Bend, Indiana. It belongs to South Bend Community School Corp, a district ranked 320 of 374 in Indiana and placed in the 14th percentile with a 1-star rating. Since there is only one middle school in this ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against; the meaningful comparisons are to the district and to the state.
Jefferson Traditional School has earned 1 star in each of the last three school years, and its state rank has slipped from 395 of 491 (20th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 437 of 486 (10th percentile) in 2025–2026 — the bottom decile of Indiana middle schools. In 2025–2026 ILEARN results, proficiency trails the district in every all-grade subject: English Language Arts 15.55% vs. 19.98%, Math 10.17% vs. 18.46%, and Science 15.71% vs. 20.98%. Grade-level results span from 9.55% in 7th grade ELA to 23.78% in 8th grade ELA, the school's strongest reported figure and nearly even with the district's 24.13%, though still about 20 points under the state's 44%. Math is consistently weakest, with grade-level proficiency ranging only from 9.86% to 10.43%.
Chronic absenteeism is 45.8% for 2024–2025 — above the district's 40.3% and roughly 2.7 times the state's 16.7%. Science was the only all-grade subject to improve year over year, rising from 10.56% to 15.71%, but the identical 6th grade Science figure suggests that gain came from one grade rather than schoolwide growth. About 59.39% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Per-student spending is $13,480 and the student-teacher ratio is 15.9, though this data set offers no state or district comparators for those two figures.
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