Maple Crest STEM Elementary School

Maple Crest STEM Elementary School is an elementary school of intimate scale in Kokomo, Indiana, overseen by Kokomo School Corporation, caters to 187 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 436.

Kokomo School Corporation comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,197 students; Maple Crest STEM Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Maple Crest STEM Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest reads as 19% multiracial, 17% Black, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Howard County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Maple Crest STEM Elementary School lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Maple Crest STEM Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.1%; actual is 57.0%, +15.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Howard County reports that median household income runs about $64,027, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Howard County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,786 students), Maple Crest STEM Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Maple Crest Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maple Crest STEM Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maple Crest STEM Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

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