Central Elementary School

Central Elementary School operates as a small elementary campus in Clinton, Indiana, part of South Vermillion Com Sch Corp. Current enrollment sits at 366 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Within South Vermillion Com Sch Corp, which oversees 4 schools and 1,548 students, Central Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Central Elementary School lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Vermillion County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Central Elementary School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Vermillion County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Central Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Vermillion County shows median household income runs about $60,200, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Central Elementary School is one of 7 public schools in Vermillion County (combined enrollment of about 2,279 students).

South Vermillion High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Central Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.5%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 23%: 297 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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