New Market Elementary School

New Market Elementary School is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in New Market, Indiana, one of the schools within South Montgomery Com Sch Corp, educateing 468 students in grades pre-K through 5.

South Montgomery Com Sch Corp runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,684 students. New Market Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, New Market Elementary School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at New Market Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, New Market Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.1%.

Across the wider county, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,479 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,261 students), New Market Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southmont Jr High School, around 1.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, New Market Elementary School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 507 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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