Hattie B Stokes Elementary School

Hattie B Stokes Elementary School is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Lebanon, Indiana, one of the schools within Lebanon Community School Corp, with 394 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Hattie B Stokes Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Lebanon Community School Corp, a district that enrolls 3,701 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Hattie B Stokes Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 10% Black, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Boone County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Boone County's rate of about 22%.

With demographic context factored in, Hattie B Stokes Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 28.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate median household income runs about $111,250, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Boone County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,246 students), of which Hattie B Stokes Elementary School is one.

Central Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Hattie B Stokes Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hattie B Stokes Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

Hattie B Stokes Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 394 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment increased from 2% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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