Eastlawn Elementary School

Eastlawn Elementary School is a K-5 school of minimally staffed scale in Burnettsville, Indiana, run under Twin Lakes School Corp, caters to 126 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 71% below the state mean of about 436.

Twin Lakes School Corp runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,102 students. Eastlawn Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Eastlawn Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest consists of 14% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Eastlawn Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.1%; this one delivers 26.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for White County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,303, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across White County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,271 students), Eastlawn Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oaklawn Elementary School, around 7.2 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Eastlawn Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Eastlawn Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 47% since 2018, when it stood at 238 (now 126). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 5% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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