Rosedale Elementary School

Set in Rosedale, Indiana, Rosedale Elementary School is a modestly sized K-5 school, overseen by Southwest Parke Com Sch Corp. It works with 318 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Rosedale Elementary School sits 27% below that benchmark.

Southwest Parke Com Sch Corp runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,002 students. Rosedale Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Rosedale Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder is composed of 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rosedale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Parke County shows median household income runs about $68,485, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Rosedale Elementary School is one of 7 public schools in Parke County (combined enrollment of about 2,182 students).

Rio Grande Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Rosedale Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rosedale Elementary School has fell 4%, going from 330 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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