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Shelbyville Sr High School
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7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Shelbyville Sr High School
Located at 2003 S Miller St, in Shelbyville, Indiana, Shelbyville Sr High School is a middle-of-the-pack senior high that instructs 1,068 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Shelbyville Central Schools. Compared to the state average of about 816 students per school, that is 31% above typical.
Shelbyville Central Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,912 students. Shelbyville Sr High School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Shelbyville Sr High School logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, Shelbyville Sr High School has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Shelbyville Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Shelby County) reports that median household income runs about $72,190, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Shelbyville Sr High School is one of 18 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 7,418 students).
Shelbyville Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Shelbyville Sr High School.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Shelbyville Sr High School's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,134 (now 1,068). Over the same period, the White share declined from 82% to 71%.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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