East Side Elementary School

East Side Elementary School is an elementary campus of tight-knit scale in Brazil, Indiana, one of the schools within Clay Community Schools, works with 209 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% below the state mean of about 436.

Across the 10 schools in Clay Community Schools (3,995 students total), East Side Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, East Side Elementary School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Clay County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting East Side Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, East Side Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.9%; actual is 57.3%, +23.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Clay County put median household earnings sit near $70,010, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Clay County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,995 students), East Side Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Forest Park Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around East Side Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts East Side Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 48.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. East Side Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 249 (now 209).

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