Parkside Elementary School

Parkside Elementary School is a well-populated elementary-level community in Columbus, Indiana, overseen by Bartholomew Con School Corp. The school enrolls 733 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 68% bigger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Parkside Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Bartholomew Con School Corp, a district that instructs 11,657 students overall.

On demographics, Parkside Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Bartholomew County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Parkside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the broader community, Bartholomew County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,901 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Bartholomew County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,688 students), Parkside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Northside Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Parkside Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 809 students in 2018 compared to 733 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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