Perry Central Jr-Sr High School

As a compact senior high in Leopold, Indiana, Perry Central Jr-Sr High School hosts 541 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within Perry Central Com Schools Corp. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Perry Central Jr-Sr High School sits 34% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Perry Central Com Schools Corp (1,275 students total), Perry Central Jr-Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Perry Central Jr-Sr High School records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Perry County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Perry Central Jr-Sr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Perry County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Perry Central Jr-Sr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.0%; this one delivers 38.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Perry County) records that the typical household earns roughly $61,151 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Perry County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,842 students), Perry Central Jr-Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Perry Central Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Perry Central Jr-Sr High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 555 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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