Sheridan Middle School

As a close-knit middle-grades school in Sheridan, Indiana, Sheridan Middle School hosts 270 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Sheridan Community Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 594.

Sheridan Community Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,169 students. Sheridan Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sheridan Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hamilton County (around 21%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Sheridan Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hamilton County shows median household income runs about $121,530, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Hamilton County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), of which Sheridan Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sheridan High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sheridan Middle School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 62.4%.

Sheridan Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sheridan Middle School has rose 10%, going from 246 students in 2018 to 270 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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