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Oak Hill Elementary School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Oak Hill Elementary School
Oak Hill Elementary School is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in Lowell, Indiana, run under Tri-Creek School Corporation, with 487 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.
Oak Hill Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Tri-Creek School Corporation, a district that teaches 3,280 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Oak Hill Elementary School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
On the income-and-resources front, Oak Hill Elementary School reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Lake County's rate of about 47%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oak Hill Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.9%; this one delivers 55.0%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Lake County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,493 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Lake County's 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), Oak Hill Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Lowell Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oak Hill Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. Oak Hill Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 497 (now 487). Class-load math has tightened: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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