McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch

Set in Spencer, Indiana, McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch is an average-sized elementary school, overseen by Spencer-Owen Community Schools. It enrolls 390 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Within Spencer-Owen Community Schools, which oversees 6 schools and 2,156 students, McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Owen County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.1%.

In the area at large, Owen County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,464, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Owen County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,156 students), of which McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Edgewood Early Childhood Center, around 3.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. McCormick's Creek Elementary Sch's enrollment has ticked up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 390). Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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