Graham Creek Elementary School

Graham Creek Elementary School is a compact elementary-level community in Commiskey, Indiana, part of Jennings County School Corporation. The school instructs 250 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Within Jennings County School Corporation, which oversees 8 schools and 3,800 students, Graham Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Graham Creek Elementary School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. Compared to Jennings County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Graham Creek Elementary School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Graham Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Graham Creek Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.8%; Graham Creek Elementary School posts 54.7%, +21.9 points above that line.

Around the school, Jennings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,322 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Jennings County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,800 students), of which Graham Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Deputy Elementary School, around 5.3 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Graham Creek Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 295 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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