Public school / Primary
Springfield Elementary School
Michigan City, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180657001161
- District
- Michigan City Area Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Springfield Elementary School is a public primary school in Michigan City, Indiana, run by Michigan City Area Schools. It enrols 345 students — the 59170th largest of 1,930 public schools in Indiana.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
345
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
16.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
78.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Michigan City Area Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Michigan City High School1,555 students
- 2Joy Elementary School460 students
- 3Barker Middle School430 students
- 4Pine Elementary School403 students
- 5Lake Hills Elementary School383 students
- 6Knapp Elementary School376 students
- 7Edgewood Elementary School345 students
- 8Springfield Elementary School345 students
- Enrollment−29.2%
- Teachers−30.0%
- Students per teacher+5.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory