Lester B Sommer Elementary School

Set in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Lester B Sommer Elementary School is an intimate primary school, part of North Montgomery Com Sch Corp. It educates 342 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

North Montgomery Com Sch Corp comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,847 students; Lester B Sommer Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lester B Sommer Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Lester B Sommer Elementary School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Lester B Sommer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 48.6%, a residual of +1.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,479 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lester B Sommer Elementary School is one of 17 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 6,261 students).

Meredith Nicholson Elementary Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lester B Sommer Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.7%.

Lester B Sommer Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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