Southwestern High School

Set in Shelbyville, Indiana, Southwestern High School is a rural-scale four-year high school, one of the schools within Southwestern Con Sch Shelby Co. It instructs 264 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 68% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 816 students.

Southwestern High School is one of 2 schools operated by Southwestern Con Sch Shelby Co, a district that educates 669 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Southwestern High School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic. Compared to Shelby County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Southwestern High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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), Southwestern High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of -9.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Shelby County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,190 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Southwestern High School is one of 18 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 7,418 students).

Southwestern Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Southwestern High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Southwestern High School's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 305 (now 264). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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