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If you had an hour of school board time for Childs Elementary School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCH CORP·NCES 180063000123
Childs Elementary School
2211 S High St, Bloomington, IN 47401 · (812) 330-7756 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of Indiana public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 35.5:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
57 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 76 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 42% smaller than its 6th grade class (76).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
68.2%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
81.8%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.5%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Childs Elementary School
Childs Elementary School's state test result (75.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childs Elementary School this school | 446 | 12.8% | 75.0% |
| Oak View Elementary School Fort Wayne | 442 | 12.0% | 70.1% |
| Cedar Canyon Elementary School Fort Wayne | 508 | 9.6% | 60.5% |
| Deer Ridge Elementary Fort Wayne | 430 | 16.7% | 64.0% |
| Stonegate Elementary Zionsville | 462 | 10.6% | 68.2% |
| Eagle Elementary School Zionsville | 359 | 9.2% | 70.0% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Childs Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #23 of 983 | #2 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.8% | #26 of 986 | #1 of 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #41 of 986 | #2 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #496 of 1,079 | #6 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #450 of 991 | #15 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.6% | #529 of 996 | #9 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.8% | #1,033 of 1,058 | #18 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.8% | #187 of 597 | #4 of 12 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
446
-52 (-10%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 396
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 446 | 30.1 | 14.8:1 | 13% (57) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 31.5 | 15.6:1 | 15% (76) |
| 2022-23 | 483 | 33 | 14.7:1 | 13% (65) |
| 2020-21 | 498 | 31 | 16.1:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2017-18 | 549 | 30 | 18.3:1 | 9% (48) |
| 2015-16 | 513 | 27 | 19.0:1 | 11% (54) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 24 | 19.1:1 | 10% (47) |
| 2000-01 | 458 | 23 | 19.9:1 | 4% (20) |
| 1990-91 | 396 | 21 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Childs Elementary School.
About Childs Elementary School
Childs Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Bloomington, Indiana. Federal data show 446 students enrolled in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25.
Monroe County Community Sch Corp operates 23 schools. Combined enrollment is 10,480 students.
The largest group at Childs Elementary School is White students, at 76%. Smaller groups are 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Black. The diversity index for Childs Elementary School is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Childs Elementary School is 14.8:1, based on 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Indiana is 15.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Childs Elementary School counts 13% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Monroe County is 39%.
On the allk12 Grade, Childs Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 92% of Indiana public elementary schools.
Childs Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 75.0%, compared with a predicted 66.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Indiana schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Monroe County, the median household earns about $65,868 a year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Childs Elementary School, Monroe County has 33 public schools.
A public school about 1.0 miles away, Jackson Creek Middle School, is the closest to Childs Elementary School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Childs Elementary School is ahead of the 47.2% nearby average, ranking 1st of 5.
For locale, NCES codes Childs Elementary School as City: Small.
In 2020-21, Childs Elementary School enrolled 498 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 446. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.8:1.
The Childs Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
140,965
Census ACS
Median income
$65,868
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
14,256 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Monroe County Community Sch Corp
- Bloomington High School SouthHigh · 1,691 students
- Bloomington High School NorthHigh · 1,528 students
- Summit Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Jackson Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 572 students
- Tri-North Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- University Elementary SchoolElementary · 536 students
Other schools in Bloomington
- Bloomington High School SouthHigh · 1,691 students
- Bloomington High School NorthHigh · 1,528 students
- Edgewood Primary SchoolElementary · 652 students
- Edgewood Intermediate SchoolElementary · 619 students
- Summit Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Jackson Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 572 students
Other Childs Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Childs Elementary. Childs Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Childs Elementary SchoolYPSILANTI, MI · 493 students
- Childs Elementary SchoolRobbins, IL · 149 students
Nearby schools
- Jackson Creek Middle School1.0 mi · 572
- Bloomington High School South1.2 mi · 1,691
- Early Learning Center1.3 mi · 27
- Templeton Elementary School1.3 mi · 412
- Binford Elementary School1.5 mi · 507
- Rogers Elementary School1.5 mi · 288
Frequently asked questions
About Childs Elementary SchoolHow large is Childs Elementary School?
Childs Elementary School enrolls approximately 446 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Childs Elementary School serve?
Childs Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Childs Elementary School have?
Childs Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Childs Elementary School?
Student demographics at Childs Elementary School are roughly 76% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Childs Elementary School in?
Childs Elementary School is part of Monroe County Community Sch Corp.
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