Monroe Central Elementary School

Monroe Central Elementary School, a high-enrollment K-5 school in Parker City, Indiana, part of Monroe Central School Corp, educates 680 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 56% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Monroe Central Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by Monroe Central School Corp, a district that serves 1,150 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Monroe Central Elementary School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% multiracial. Compared to Randolph County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Monroe Central Elementary School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Randolph County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Monroe Central Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Randolph County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $60,791 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Monroe Central Elementary School is one of 17 public schools in Randolph County (combined enrollment of about 11,772 students).

Monroe Central Jr-Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Monroe Central Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 21%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 680 in 2025.

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