Elwood Intermediate School

Set in Elwood, Indiana, Elwood Intermediate School is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within Elwood Community School Corp. It teaches 400 students across grades 3 through 6.

Elwood Community School Corp comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,462 students; Elwood Intermediate School is among them.

On demographics, Elwood Intermediate School records that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Elwood Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 73% of students at Elwood Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Elwood Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 21.5%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate median household income runs about $63,037, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Madison County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,227 students), Elwood Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Elwood Jr-Sr High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Elwood Intermediate School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elwood Intermediate School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 30.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 453 students in 2018 compared to 400 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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