Owensville Community School

Owensville Community School is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in Owensville, Indiana, run under South Gibson School Corporation, instructing 396 students in grades K through 8.

Owensville Community School is one of 4 schools operated by South Gibson School Corporation, a district that hosts 2,118 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Owensville Community School records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic. Compared to Gibson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Owensville Community School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Owensville Community School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.6%; this one delivers 47.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Gibson County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,573 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gibson County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,664 students), Owensville Community School is one campus in the mix.

Gibson Southern High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Owensville Community School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 396 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.