Bellmont Senior High School

Located at 1000 North Adams Dr, in Decatur, Indiana, Bellmont Senior High School is a small secondary school that caters to 613 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within North Adams Community Schools. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Bellmont Senior High School sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

North Adams Community Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,571 students; Bellmont Senior High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Bellmont Senior High School logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Adams County) reports that median household earnings sit near $65,289, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Adams County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,240 students), Bellmont Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bellmont Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Bellmont Senior High School's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 613). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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