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Newburgh Elementary School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Indiana's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Newburgh Elementary School
Newburgh Elementary School operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Newburgh, Indiana, one of the schools within Warrick County School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 583 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.
Warrick County School Corp runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,858 students. Newburgh Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Newburgh Elementary School logs that nearly all students (82%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Newburgh Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, Newburgh Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Indiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 52.6%; actual is 72.4%, +19.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Warrick County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,844, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Newburgh Elementary School is one of 19 public schools in Warrick County (combined enrollment of about 9,858 students).
Sharon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Newburgh Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Newburgh Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 665 students in 2018 compared to 583 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.
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Warrick County at a glance
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