New Washington Elementary School

Set in New Washington, Indiana, New Washington Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community, overseen by Greater Clark County Schools. It instructs 296 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so New Washington Elementary School sits 32% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Greater Clark County Schools, which oversees 17 schools and 10,643 students, New Washington Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, New Washington Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, New Washington Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.4%; this one delivers 38.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Clark County shows median household income runs about $74,214, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. New Washington Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 23,765 students).

Nearest neighbor: New Washington Middle/High School, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, New Washington Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Washington Elementary School has shrank 4%, going from 307 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

On the community side, members of the New Washington Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.