Columbia Elementary School

Columbia Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary-level community in Logansport, Indiana, overseen by Logansport Community Sch Corp, serves 432 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Logansport Community Sch Corp, which oversees 8 schools and 4,488 students, Columbia Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Columbia Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 31% White, 14% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Columbia Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cass County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Columbia Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.8%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of +8.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cass County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,403 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cass County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,815 students), of which Columbia Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Logansport Intermediate School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Columbia Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Columbia Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.0%.

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

Five-year trend. Columbia Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 432). The Black share of enrollment grew from 1% to 14% over that span.

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