Excel Center - Bartholomew County

Excel Center - Bartholomew County is one of the very small secondary schools in Columbus, Indiana, one of the schools within Excel Center - Bartholomew County, with 49 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 94% below the state mean of about 816.

Excel Center - Bartholomew County is a school of Excel Center - Bartholomew County, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Excel Center - Bartholomew County shows that 65% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 20% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bartholomew County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Excel Center - Bartholomew County has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Excel Center - Bartholomew County tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bartholomew County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Bartholomew County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,901 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Excel Center - Bartholomew County is one of 20 public schools in Bartholomew County (combined enrollment of about 12,688 students).

The closest other public school is Richard L Johnson Early Educ Cntr, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. Excel Center - Bartholomew County operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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