Morristown Jr-Sr High School

Set in Morristown, Indiana, Morristown Jr-Sr High School is an intimate four-year high school, operated by Shelby Eastern Schools. It serves 333 students across grades 6 through 12. That puts it 59% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 816 students.

Shelby Eastern Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,292 students. Morristown Jr-Sr High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Morristown Jr-Sr High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). That composition is broadly in line with Shelby County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Morristown Jr-Sr High School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at Morristown Jr-Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Morristown Jr-Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Shelby County put median household income runs about $72,190, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Shelby County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,418 students), Morristown Jr-Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Morristown Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Morristown Jr-Sr High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Morristown Jr-Sr High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 333).

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