Milan Elementary School

Milan Elementary School is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Milan, Indiana, overseen by Milan Community Schools, works with 462 students in grades K through 4.

Across the 4 schools in Milan Community Schools (1,095 students total), Milan Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Milan Elementary School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Milan Elementary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Milan Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ripley County (around 46%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Milan Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.4%, the actual is 37.7%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Ripley County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,573 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Milan Elementary School is one of 13 public schools in Ripley County (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students).

Milan Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Milan Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 436 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025.

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