Connersville Middle School

Set in Connersville, Indiana, Connersville Middle School is a close-knit middle school, overseen by Fayette County School Corporation. It educates 434 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Fayette County School Corporation comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,103 students; Connersville Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Connersville Middle School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Connersville Middle School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Connersville Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 27.2%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Fayette County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,321 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Connersville Middle School is one of 8 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 3,103 students).

Nearest neighbor: Grandview Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Connersville Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.6%.

Connersville Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Connersville Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 568 (now 434). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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