Hope Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary school in Hope, Indiana, Hope Elementary School works with 547 students from grades K through 6, operated by Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Hope Elementary School sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 982 students; Hope Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Hope Elementary School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Bartholomew County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bartholomew County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hope Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bartholomew County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,901, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Hope Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in Bartholomew County (combined enrollment of about 12,688 students).

The closest other public school is Hauser Jr-Sr High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 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 Hope Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hope Elementary School has ticked up 23%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 96% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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