Deputy Elementary School

Deputy Elementary School is an elementary school of rural-scale scale in Deputy, Indiana, one of the schools within Madison Consolidated Schools, teacheing 138 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 68% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Madison Consolidated Schools comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,651 students; Deputy Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Deputy Elementary School records that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 2% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 53%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Deputy Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 28.9%; actual is 56.8%, +27.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,577 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Jefferson County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,109 students), Deputy Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Johnson Elementary School, roughly 4.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Deputy Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.1%.

Deputy Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Deputy Elementary School's enrollment has grew 57% since 2018, when it stood at 88 (now 138). Class-load math has rose: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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