Bright Elementary School

Bright Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, part of Sunman-Dearborn Com Sch Corp. Current enrollment sits at 534 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 436.

Sunman-Dearborn Com Sch Corp comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,682 students; Bright Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Bright Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 20% of students at Bright Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Dearborn County's rate of about 33%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bright Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Dearborn County put median household earnings sit near $84,735, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dearborn County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,326 students), Bright Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Harrison Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bright Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bright Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 560 (now 534). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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