East Central Middle School

East Central Middle School operates as an average-sized middle school in St Leon, Indiana, operated by Sunman-Dearborn Com Sch Corp. Current enrollment sits at 803 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 35% larger than the state mean of about 594.

Sunman-Dearborn Com Sch Corp comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,682 students; East Central Middle School is among them.

Demographically, East Central Middle School records that nearly all students (96%) are White. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Dearborn County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, East Central Middle School records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dearborn County (around 33%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Central Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Dearborn County shows median household earnings sit near $84,735, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dearborn County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,326 students), of which East Central Middle School is one.

East Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around East Central Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts East Central Middle School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Central Middle School has edged down 13%, going from 921 students in 2018 to 803 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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