Bradie Shrum Elementary

Bradie Shrum Elementary is an elementary campus of large scale in Salem, Indiana, run under Salem Community Schools, caters to 748 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 72% above the state mean of about 436.

Salem Community Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,592 students. Bradie Shrum Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bradie Shrum Elementary lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Washington County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Bradie Shrum Elementary has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Washington County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bradie Shrum Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of +2.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Washington County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $64,641 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Washington County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,847 students), Bradie Shrum Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Salem Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bradie Shrum Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bradie Shrum Elementary's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 856 (now 748). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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