Shenandoah Elementary School

Set in Middletown, Indiana, Shenandoah Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus, overseen by Shenandoah School Corporation. It works with 630 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% above the state mean of about 436.

Across the 5 schools in Shenandoah School Corporation (1,771 students total), Shenandoah Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Shenandoah Elementary School lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Shenandoah Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.6%; Shenandoah Elementary School posts 58.3%, +19.7 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Henry County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,150 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Henry County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,081 students), of which Shenandoah Elementary School is one.

Shenandoah Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Shenandoah Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shenandoah Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Shenandoah Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 630). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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