Arlington Heights Elementary Sch

Arlington Heights Elementary Sch is a low-enrollment K-5 school in Bloomington, Indiana, run under Monroe County Community Sch Corp. The school serves 301 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 436.

Arlington Heights Elementary Sch is one of 23 schools operated by Monroe County Community Sch Corp, a district that caters to 10,480 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Arlington Heights Elementary Sch lists that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 19% multiracial, 13% Black, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Arlington Heights Elementary Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Monroe County (around 39%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arlington Heights Elementary Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Monroe County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $65,868 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Monroe County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,256 students), of which Arlington Heights Elementary Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tri-North Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arlington Heights Elementary Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Arlington Heights Elementary Sch at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 46.6%.

Arlington Heights Elementary Sch operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arlington Heights Elementary Sch has shrank 4%, going from 314 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 73% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Arlington Heights Elementary Sch community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.