Grandview Elementary School

Located at 2620 Iowa Ave, in Connersville, Indiana, Grandview Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus that educates 530 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under Fayette County School Corporation. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Across the 7 schools in Fayette County School Corporation (3,103 students total), Grandview Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Grandview Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest looks like 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Grandview Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grandview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of +13.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fayette County) records that median household income runs about $59,321, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Fayette County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,103 students), of which Grandview Elementary School is one.

Connersville Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grandview Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Grandview Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 47% since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 530).

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