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Lakeland Intermediate School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
About Lakeland Intermediate School
Lakeland Intermediate School is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in LaGrange, Indiana, part of Lakeland School Corporation, with 416 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6.
Lakeland Intermediate School is one of 5 schools operated by Lakeland School Corporation, a district that enrolls 1,492 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Lakeland Intermediate School lists that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.
On the income-and-resources front, Lakeland Intermediate School shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Lakeland Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above LaGrange County's rate of about 40%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakeland Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.9%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for LaGrange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,487 per year, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across LaGrange County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,769 students), Lakeland Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Lakeland Jr/Sr High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lakeland Intermediate School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.
Lakeland Intermediate School operates from a rural location.
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