South Elementary School

Set in Danville, Indiana, South Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school, overseen by Danville Community School Corp. It enrolls 626 students across grades 2 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 436.

Danville Community School Corp comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,795 students; South Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, South Elementary School reports that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 11% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Hendricks County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, South Elementary School records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +14.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Hendricks County put the typical household earns roughly $101,144 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hendricks County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,487 students), of which South Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Danville Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, South Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Elementary School has edged up 66%, going from 376 students in 2018 to 626 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 90% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.