Margaret R Brown Elementary School

As an average-sized K-5 school in Seymour, Indiana, Margaret R Brown Elementary School educates 499 students from grades K through 5, part of Seymour Community Schools.

Seymour Community Schools runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,432 students. Margaret R Brown Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Margaret R Brown Elementary School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 17% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jackson County (around 58%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Margaret R Brown Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.8%; this one delivers 18.5%.

Around the school, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,262 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Margaret R Brown Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 7,459 students).

The closest other public school is Seymour Middle School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Margaret R Brown Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Margaret R Brown Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Margaret R Brown Elementary School has declined 7%, going from 536 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 39% to 17%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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