Crothersville Jr-Sr High School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 38% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Crothersville Jr-Sr High School
Crothersville Jr-Sr High School is a rural-scale senior high in Crothersville, Indiana, operated by Crothersville Community Schools. The school educates 221 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 73% below the state mean of about 816.
Crothersville Community Schools runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 451 students. Crothersville Jr-Sr High School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Crothersville Jr-Sr High School shows that nearly all students (93%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Crothersville Jr-Sr High School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Crothersville Jr-Sr High School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.4%; Crothersville Jr-Sr High School posts 23.7%, -14.7 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,262 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Crothersville Jr-Sr High School is one of 15 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 7,459 students).
Nearest neighbor: Crothersville Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Crothersville Jr-Sr High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crothersville Jr-Sr High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.9%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crothersville Jr-Sr High School has increased 12%, going from 197 students in 2018 to 221 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.
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