Clifty Creek Elementary School

Clifty Creek Elementary School, a sizable K-5 school in Columbus, Indiana, one of the schools within Bartholomew Con School Corp, enrolls 705 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 62% bigger than the state mean of about 436.

Clifty Creek Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Bartholomew Con School Corp, a district that serves 11,657 students overall.

On demographics, Clifty Creek Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 42% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Clifty Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Bartholomew County's rate of about 44%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clifty Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bartholomew County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $79,901 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Bartholomew County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,688 students), of which Clifty Creek Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is L F Smith Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clifty Creek Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clifty Creek Elementary School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 42.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Clifty Creek Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 36% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 705). Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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