Royerton Elementary School

Located at 1401 E Royerton Rd, in Muncie, Indiana, Royerton Elementary School is an average-sized primary school that educates 596 students (grades K through 5), operated by Delaware Community School Corp. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Delaware Community School Corp comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,581 students; Royerton Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Royerton Elementary School records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Delaware County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Royerton Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 41% of students at Royerton Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Royerton Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,127, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Delaware County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,683 students), of which Royerton Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Delta High School, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Royerton Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Royerton Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Royerton Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 615 (now 596). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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