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John H Castle Elementary School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About John H Castle Elementary School
John H Castle Elementary School operates as a sizable K-5 school in Newburgh, Indiana, run under Warrick County School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 965 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 121% larger than the state mean of about 436.
John H Castle Elementary School is one of 18 schools operated by Warrick County School Corp, a district that serves 9,858 students overall.
Looking at the student body, John H Castle Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Warrick County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 18% of students at John H Castle Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Warrick County (around 36%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), John H Castle Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 67.4%, a residual of +4.4 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Warrick County put the typical household earns roughly $89,844 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. John H Castle Elementary School is one of 19 public schools in Warrick County (combined enrollment of about 9,858 students).
Nearest neighbor: Warrick County Preschool, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John H Castle Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 60.3%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Trend over the last 7 years. John H Castle Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 972 (now 965). White enrollment moved from 81% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.
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