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Princeton Comm Intermediate School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Princeton Comm Intermediate School
Located at 1104 N Embree St, in Princeton, Indiana, Princeton Comm Intermediate School is a moderately sized elementary school that works with 430 students (grades 3 through 5), run under North Gibson School Corporation.
North Gibson School Corporation comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,864 students; Princeton Comm Intermediate School is among them.
Demographically, Princeton Comm Intermediate School lists that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 10% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.
In terms of school funding signals, Princeton Comm Intermediate School lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Gibson County's rate of about 39%.
After controlling for student poverty, Princeton Comm Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.9%; this one delivers 33.5%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Gibson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,573 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Gibson County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,664 students), Princeton Comm Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Princeton Community Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Princeton Comm Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Princeton Comm Intermediate School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. Princeton Comm Intermediate School's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 467 (now 430). Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.
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Gibson County at a glance
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Related schools
- Princeton Community High SchoolHigh · 580 students
- Princeton Community MiddleMiddle · 437 students
- Princeton Comm Primary SchoolElementary · 417 students
- Princeton Community High SchoolHigh · 580 students
- Princeton Community MiddleMiddle · 437 students
- Princeton Comm Primary SchoolElementary · 417 students
- Princeton Community Middle0.0 mi · 437
- Princeton Comm Primary School0.2 mi · 417
- Princeton Community High School0.5 mi · 580
- Fort Branch Community School8.8 mi · 577
- Gibson Southern High School9.5 mi · 742
- Mt Carmel Junior High School9.8 mi · 199