Pine Ridge Elementary School

Pine Ridge Elementary School operates as a close-knit elementary campus in Birdseye, Indiana, run under Southeast Dubois Co Sch Corp. Current enrollment sits at 235 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 46% below the state mean of about 436.

Southeast Dubois Co Sch Corp runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,254 students. Pine Ridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pine Ridge Elementary School records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Pine Ridge Elementary School lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pine Ridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 62.3%, a residual of +11.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dubois County put the typical household earns roughly $75,979 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Dubois County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,511 students), Pine Ridge Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cedar Crest Intermediate School, roughly 5.5 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Ridge Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.5%.

Pine Ridge Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pine Ridge Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 247 (now 235). Class-load math has tightened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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