Eastside Junior-Senior High School

Eastside Junior-Senior High School, a cozy four-year high school in Butler, Indiana, one of the schools within DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist, caters to 559 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Eastside Junior-Senior High School sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Eastside Junior-Senior High School is one of 4 schools operated by DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist, a district that teaches 1,244 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Eastside Junior-Senior High School records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 4% Hispanic. Compared to DeKalb County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Eastside Junior-Senior High School reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Eastside Junior-Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eastside Junior-Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, DeKalb County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,331 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across DeKalb County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,781 students), Eastside Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Butler Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Eastside Junior-Senior High School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 559 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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