Enrollment
257
Elementary
DISTRICT 413 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEYMOUR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 181008001616
Emerson Elementary School
500 Emerson Dr, Seymour, IN 47274 · (812) 522-2596 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL257 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Indiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
145 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 48 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 16% smaller than its 4th grade class (57).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Seymour Community Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
50.9%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
64.5%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Indiana's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Emerson Elementary School
Emerson Elementary School's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson Elementary School this school | 257 | 56.4% | 54.3% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Plymouth | 240 | 59.6% | 46.1% |
| Bristol Elementary School Bristol | 296 | 58.4% | 24.7% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Valparaiso | 285 | 52.3% | 71.3% |
| Parkview Elementary School Valparaiso | 213 | 54.5% | 62.9% |
| David Turnham Education Center Dale | 299 | 52.2% | 52.8% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Emerson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #242 of 983 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #191 of 986 | #1 of 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #224 of 986 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 257 | #913 of 1,079 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #258 of 991 | #1 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #357 of 996 | #2 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.4% | #448 of 1,058 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.5% | #93 of 597 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
257
-66 (-20%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 292
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 19.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 257 | 18.7 | 13.7:1 | 56% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 271 | 18.7 | 14.5:1 | 50% (135) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 18.3 | 17.7:1 | 53% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 323 | 17 | 19.0:1 | 41% (134) |
| 2017-18 | 345 | 16.5 | 20.9:1 | 42% (146) |
| 2015-16 | 311 | 14 | 22.2:1 | 38% (118) |
| 2010-11 | 303 | 14 | 21.6:1 | 41% (124) |
| 2000-01 | 315 | 15 | 21.0:1 | 18% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 292 | 14 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emerson Elementary School.
About Emerson Elementary School
Students in Seymour, Indiana, attend Emerson Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. The school's enrollment of 257 students covers kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Indiana average about 436 students each.
Seymour Community Schools is the local district for Emerson Elementary School. It runs 8 schools with 5,432 students.
White students are the majority at Emerson Elementary School, with 60% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 30% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. Among all residents of Jackson County, the White share is about 80%. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At Emerson Elementary School, 18.7 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.7:1. That is lower than the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana. Roughly 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Jackson County average 58%.
Emerson Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 86% of Indiana public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Emerson Elementary School beats its 35.6% prediction with 54.3%, a top-10% result in Indiana.
Census Bureau estimates for Jackson County show that the median household income is $70,262, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. There are 15 public schools in Jackson County, enrolling about 7,459 students in all.
Seymour Senior High School is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. The count of other public schools within five miles is 7. On state test proficiency, Emerson Elementary School ranks 2nd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
2024-25 enrollment was 257, a 20% decrease from 323 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 13.7 students per teacher, compared with 19.0 in 2020-21.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,660
Census ACS
Median income
$70,262
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
7,459 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Seymour Community Schools
- Seymour Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,729 students
- Seymour Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 862 students
- Seymour Middle SchoolMiddle · 778 students
- Seymour-Jackson Elementary SchoolElementary · 609 students
- Seymour-Redding Elementary SchoolElementary · 609 students
- Margaret R Brown Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other schools in Seymour
- Seymour Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,729 students
- Seymour Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 862 students
- Seymour Middle SchoolMiddle · 778 students
- Seymour-Jackson Elementary SchoolElementary · 609 students
- Seymour-Redding Elementary SchoolElementary · 609 students
- Margaret R Brown Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other Emerson Elementary schools
35 other US public schools in 18 states are named Emerson Elementary. Emerson Elementary School is the 29th largest of the 36.
- Emerson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 990 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 717 students
- Emerson ElementaryRiverside, CA · 669 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolEverett, WA · 662 students
- Emerson ElementaryCompton, CA · 544 students
Nearby schools
- Seymour Senior High School0.6 mi · 1,729
- Seymour Intermediate School1.0 mi · 862
- Seymour-Redding Elementary School1.2 mi · 609
- Seymour Middle School1.2 mi · 778
- Margaret R Brown Elementary School1.3 mi · 499
- Seymour-Jackson Elementary School1.6 mi · 609
Frequently asked questions
About Emerson Elementary SchoolHow large is Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School enrolls approximately 257 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Emerson Elementary School serve?
Emerson Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Emerson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Emerson Elementary School is approximately 13.7:1 (19 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School reports a student body of 60% White, 30% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Emerson Elementary School in?
Emerson Elementary School is part of Seymour Community Schools.
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