Linton-Stockton Elementary

Set in Linton, Indiana, Linton-Stockton Elementary is a substantial elementary school, part of Linton-Stockton School Corporation. It instructs 725 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 66% above the state mean of about 436.

Within Linton-Stockton School Corporation, which oversees 3 schools and 1,393 students, Linton-Stockton Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Linton-Stockton Elementary logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Linton-Stockton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of +11.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Greene County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,094 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Linton-Stockton Elementary is one of 15 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 4,739 students).

Linton-Stockton Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Linton-Stockton Elementary. On composite proficiency, Linton-Stockton Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Linton-Stockton Elementary's enrollment has grew 8% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 725).

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.