Perry Central Elementary School

Perry Central Elementary School, a large primary school in Leopold, Indiana, overseen by Perry Central Com Schools Corp, works with 734 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Perry Central Elementary School sits 68% bigger than that benchmark.

Perry Central Com Schools Corp comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,275 students; Perry Central Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Perry Central Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). Other groups include 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Perry Central Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Perry Central Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Perry Central Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the broader community, Perry County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,151, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Perry County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,842 students), of which Perry Central Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Perry Central Jr-Sr High School, around 0.0 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Perry Central Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 43.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Perry Central Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 695 (now 734). Class-load math has tightened: from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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