Austin Elementary School

Austin Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Austin, Indiana, operated by Scott County School District 1. Current enrollment sits at 645 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

Across the 3 schools in Scott County School District 1 (1,328 students total), Austin Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Austin Elementary School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Austin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -11.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Scott County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,352 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Austin Elementary School is one of 9 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 3,870 students).

Austin Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Austin Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.1%.

Austin Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 21%: 532 students in 2018 compared to 645 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.