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Jasper Elementary School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Indiana's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jasper Elementary School
Set in Jasper, Indiana, Jasper Elementary School is a substantial elementary-level community, part of Greater Jasper Consolidated Schs. It educates 1,023 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 135% above the state mean of about 436.
Jasper Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Greater Jasper Consolidated Schs, a district that works with 3,383 students overall.
On demographics, Jasper Elementary School shows that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at Jasper Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dubois County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
With demographic context factored in, Jasper Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.8%; actual is 50.5%, +14.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Dubois County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $75,979 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Dubois County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,511 students), of which Jasper Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Jasper Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jasper Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jasper Elementary School has expanded 165%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 1,023 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 71% to 61%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.
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