Petersburg Elementary School

Petersburg Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Petersburg, Indiana, overseen by Pike County School Corp, with 460 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Pike County School Corp, which oversees 4 schools and 1,561 students, Petersburg Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Petersburg Elementary School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Pike County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Petersburg Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Petersburg Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.1%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Pike County put median household income runs about $71,334, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pike County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,668 students), Petersburg Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pike Central High School, roughly 4.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Petersburg Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 461 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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