Oaklawn Elementary School

Oaklawn Elementary School is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in Monticello, Indiana, one of the schools within Twin Lakes School Corp, educateing 323 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Oaklawn Elementary School sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

Twin Lakes School Corp runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,102 students. Oaklawn Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oaklawn Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, On paper, Oaklawn Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of White County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oaklawn Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (White County) shows that median household earnings sit near $67,303, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, White County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,271 students), of which Oaklawn Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Twin Lakes Senior High School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Oaklawn Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Oaklawn Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Oaklawn Elementary School's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 323). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 11% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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