Pike Central Middle School

As a cozy middle-grades school in Petersburg, Indiana, Pike Central Middle School serves 383 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Pike County School Corp. That puts it 36% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Pike County School Corp runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,561 students. Pike Central Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pike Central Middle School records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 2% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Pike County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Pike Central Middle School shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Pike Central Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Pike Central Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Pike County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,334 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Pike County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,668 students), of which Pike Central Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pike Central High School, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pike Central Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 418 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.