Alexandria-Monroe High School

Located at 1 Burden Ct, in Alexandria, Indiana, Alexandria-Monroe High School is a modestly sized senior high that educates 620 students (grades 7 through 12), overseen by Alexandria Community School Corp. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 816.

Across the 2 schools in Alexandria Community School Corp (1,374 students total), Alexandria-Monroe High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Alexandria-Monroe High School records that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alexandria-Monroe High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.0%; this one comes in at 22.4%, -15.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Madison County) records that the typical household earns roughly $63,037 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Madison County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,227 students), of which Alexandria-Monroe High School is one.

The closest other public school is Alexandria Monroe Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Alexandria-Monroe High School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alexandria-Monroe High School has contracted 12%, going from 707 students in 2018 to 620 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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