Silver Creek Elementary School

Silver Creek Elementary School, a high-enrollment K-5 school in Sellersburg, Indiana, overseen by Silver Creek School Corporation, educates 980 students, covering grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Silver Creek Elementary School sits 125% bigger than that benchmark.

Silver Creek Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Silver Creek School Corporation, a district that serves 3,214 students overall.

Demographically, Silver Creek Elementary School lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Clark County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Silver Creek Elementary School shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Silver Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Clark County (around 50%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Silver Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 44.7%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Clark County put the typical household earns roughly $74,214 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Clark County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,765 students), of which Silver Creek Elementary School is one.

Silver Creek High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Silver Creek Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Silver Creek Elementary School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 39.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

On the community side, members of the Silver Creek Elementary School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.