NCES CCD 2024-25 18 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in Mishawaka, IN

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18 public K-12 schools in Mishawaka from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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18
Schools
12,545
Students
43.6/100
Avg Resource Index
17.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mishawaka has more public-school enrollment than 85% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mishawaka sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Mishawaka's list includes 7 elementary, 3 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 6 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Mishawaka's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 63rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 28th percentile. The 35-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 15%
School count
Top 17%
Resource Index average
63rd percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Penn High School accounts for 29.4% of all Mishawaka public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Mishawaka-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Mishawaka school enrollment varies 64× across entities

Mishawaka school enrollment ranges from 58 students (lowest) to 3,687 students (highest), a spread of 3,629 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Mishawaka student-teacher ratio is 17.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Mishawaka is typically wider than the Mishawaka-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Meadow's Edge Elementary School 60
2. Walt Disney Elementary School 58
3. Virgil I Grissom Middle School 52
4. Elsie Rogers Elementary School 52
5. Bittersweet Elementary School 48
6. Penn High School 47
7. Liberty Elementary School 45
8. Fred J Hums Elementary School 44
9. Schmucker Middle School 43
10. Twin Branch Elementary School 43
11. Beiger Elementary School 40
12. Elm Road Elementary School 39
13. Mishawaka High School 38
14. Battell Elementary School 38
15. Emmons Elementary School 37
16. John J Young Middle School 36
17. Lasalle Elementary School 35
18. Oaklawn Campus Program 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mishawaka

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Walt Disney Elementary School 72.7/100
  2. 2 Emmons Elementary School 68.5/100
  3. 3 Meadow's Edge Elementary School 63.3/100
  4. 4 Lasalle Elementary School 62.4/100
  5. 5 Liberty Elementary School 62.3/100

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Which Mishawaka school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Meadow's Edge Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mishawaka schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mishawaka, IN? ▼

Mishawaka has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,545 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.