Monrovia Elementary School

Located at 395 S Chestnut St, in Monrovia, Indiana, Monrovia Elementary School is a roomy primary school that hosts 741 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Monroe-Gregg School District. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Monrovia Elementary School sits 70% above that benchmark.

Monroe-Gregg School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,567 students; Monrovia Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Monrovia Elementary School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 9% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 94% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Monrovia Elementary School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Monrovia Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.0%; actual is 28.2%, a gap of -17.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Morgan County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,429, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Morgan County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,142 students), of which Monrovia Elementary School is one.

Monrovia Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Monrovia Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monrovia Elementary School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Monrovia Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 19% since 2018, when it stood at 624 (now 741). Over the same period, the White share fell from 95% to 84%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.