Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School

Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Osgood, Indiana, operated by Jac-Cen-Del Community Sch Corp, with 421 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Jac-Cen-Del Community Sch Corp comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 781 students; Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Ripley County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 41.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Ripley County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,573 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Ripley County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students), of which Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Jac-Cen-Del MS/HS, 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. On composite proficiency, Jac-Cen-Del Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 431 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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