Seymour-Redding Elementary School

Seymour-Redding Elementary School is an average-sized primary school in Seymour, Indiana, one of the schools within Seymour Community Schools. The school educates 609 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 40% bigger than typical.

Seymour Community Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,432 students; Seymour-Redding Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Seymour-Redding Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest breaks down as 36% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Seymour-Redding Elementary School lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 59% of students at Seymour-Redding Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Seymour-Redding Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,262 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Jackson County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,459 students), Seymour-Redding Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Seymour Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Seymour-Redding Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Seymour-Redding Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

Seymour-Redding Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Seymour-Redding Elementary School has ticked up 12%, going from 543 students in 2018 to 609 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 73% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.