Blackford Jr-Sr High School

Blackford Jr-Sr High School operates as a low-enrollment secondary school in Hartford City, Indiana, overseen by Blackford County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 651 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Blackford Jr-Sr High School sits 20% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Blackford County Schools (1,412 students total), Blackford Jr-Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Blackford Jr-Sr High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Blackford Jr-Sr High School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Blackford Jr-Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Blackford Jr-Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +11.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Blackford County indicate median household earnings sit near $51,326, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Blackford Jr-Sr High School is one of 3 public schools in Blackford County (combined enrollment of about 1,412 students).

Nearest neighbor: Blackford Primary School, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Blackford Jr-Sr High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blackford Jr-Sr High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Blackford Jr-Sr High School's enrollment has rose 20% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 651). White enrollment moved from 94% to 89% across the same window.

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