South Vermillion Middle School

Located at 950 W Wildcat Dr, in Clinton, Indiana, South Vermillion Middle School is an intimate middle-grades school that serves 494 students (grades 5 through 8), run under South Vermillion Com Sch Corp.

Across the 4 schools in South Vermillion Com Sch Corp (1,548 students total), South Vermillion Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, South Vermillion Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at South Vermillion Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Vermillion Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Vermillion County shows median household income runs about $60,200, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Vermillion County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,279 students), of which South Vermillion Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: South Vermillion High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around South Vermillion Middle School. On composite proficiency, South Vermillion Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. South Vermillion Middle School's enrollment has rose 18% since 2018, when it stood at 417 (now 494). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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