Hayden Elementary School

Hayden Elementary School is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in Hayden, Indiana, one of the schools within Jennings County School Corporation, caters to 284 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 436.

Jennings County School Corporation runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,800 students. Hayden Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hayden Elementary School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Jennings County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hayden Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.5%.

In the surrounding community, Jennings County reports that median household income runs about $69,322, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jennings County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,800 students), of which Hayden Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Vernon Elementary School, around 5.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Hayden Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 294 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.