Pettit Park School

Set in Kokomo, Indiana, Pettit Park School is a small elementary campus, one of the schools within Kokomo School Corporation. It teaches 215 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 51% below typical.

Across the 13 schools in Kokomo School Corporation (5,197 students total), Pettit Park School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Pettit Park School reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 20% Black, 15% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Howard County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pettit Park School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 13.5%, a residual of -8.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Howard County put the typical household earns roughly $64,027 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Howard County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,786 students), of which Pettit Park School is one.

Lafayette Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pettit Park School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pettit Park School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 25.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pettit Park School has contracted 28%, going from 297 students in 2018 to 215 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 70% to 53% over that span.

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