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Anderson Intermediate School
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ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
About Anderson Intermediate School
Anderson Intermediate School, a compact intermediate school in Anderson, Indiana, run under Anderson Community School Corp, enrolls 490 students, covering grades 5 through 6.
Anderson Intermediate School is one of 9 schools operated by Anderson Community School Corp, a district that serves 6,181 students overall.
On demographics, Anderson Intermediate School reports that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 22% Black, 21% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Madison County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Anderson Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.1%.
In the surrounding community, Madison County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,037, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Madison County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,227 students), of which Anderson Intermediate School is one.
The closest other public school is Eastside Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Anderson Intermediate School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.8%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
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