Parker Elementary School

Parker Elementary School is a modestly sized primary school in New Castle, Indiana, run under New Castle Community School Corp. The school teaches 278 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Parker Elementary School sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

New Castle Community School Corp comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,881 students; Parker Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Parker Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school lists 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Parker Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Henry County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parker Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.3%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Henry County) records that median household earnings sit near $63,150, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Henry County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,081 students), of which Parker Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Castle High School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parker Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Parker Elementary School's enrollment has declined 29% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 278). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.