Jefferson Elementary School

Jefferson Elementary serves kindergarten through third grade in Goshen, Indiana, with 375 students and a student-teacher ratio of 14.4 to one. It earns a composite score of 9.3 out of 10 — rated Exceptional — with perfect 10.0 marks in both Academics and Growth. The numbers place Jefferson in rare company statewide.

It ranks 13th out of 1,823 public schools in Indiana, landing in the top 1% across all school types and grade levels. Drill into elementary schools specifically and it climbs to 9th among 1,047 Indiana elementary schools — a result that reflects sustained performance, not a single standout year. The perfect Growth score is particularly telling: students here advance faster than expected, not just faster than peers who started with an advantage.

Locally, Jefferson holds the top position among all 12 public schools in Goshen. That alignment across local, state, and school-type comparisons is hard to manufacture — it points to something structural in how the school operates. For families choosing a school during the critical foundational years, when early literacy and numeracy set the trajectory for everything that follows, Jefferson's record across both absolute achievement and year-over-year student progress is about as strong as Indiana public elementary schools get.