Eastwood Elementary School

Eastwood Elementary School is an elementary school of compact scale in New Castle, Indiana, run under New Castle Community School Corp, hosting 257 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 41% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Within New Castle Community School Corp, which oversees 8 schools and 2,881 students, Eastwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Eastwood Elementary School lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Eastwood Elementary School lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Henry County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Eastwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.7%, the actual is 21.9%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Henry County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,150 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Eastwood Elementary School is one of 21 public schools in Henry County (combined enrollment of about 7,081 students).

Parker Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Eastwood Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Eastwood Elementary School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 301 students in 2018 compared to 257 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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