Rock Creek Community Academy

Rock Creek Community Academy, a moderately sized all-grades campus in Sellersburg, Indiana, run under Rock Creek Community Academy, serves 672 students, covering grades K through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 531 students each, so Rock Creek Community Academy sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

Rock Creek Community Academy is a school of Rock Creek Community Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Rock Creek Community Academy records that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest is composed of 13% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 24.5:1, putting Rock Creek Community Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Rock Creek Community Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 35.9%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Clark County put median household income runs about $74,214, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Rock Creek Community Academy is one of 33 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 23,765 students).

The closest other public school is Silver Creek Primary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Rock Creek Community Academy. On composite proficiency, Rock Creek Community Academy comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

Rock Creek Community Academy operates from a rural location. Rock Creek Community Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Rock Creek Community Academy's enrollment has ticked up 46% since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 672). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 80% to 74%.

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