Rockcreek Elementary School

Rockcreek Elementary School is a K-5 school of close-knit scale in Columbus, Indiana, one of the schools within Bartholomew Con School Corp, teacheing 351 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Rockcreek Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Bartholomew Con School Corp, a district that serves 11,657 students overall.

Demographically, Rockcreek Elementary School records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Rockcreek Elementary School logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bartholomew County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rockcreek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Bartholomew County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,901 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Bartholomew County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,688 students), Rockcreek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clifty Creek Elementary School, roughly 5.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rockcreek Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 40.9%.

Rockcreek Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Rockcreek Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 372 (now 351). Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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