Staunton Elementary School

Staunton Elementary School, a mid-tier primary school in Brazil, Indiana, one of the schools within Clay Community Schools, teaches 373 students, covering grades K through 5.

Clay Community Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 3,995 students; Staunton Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Staunton Elementary School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staunton Elementary School records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Staunton Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 45.9%; this one delivers 66.9%, a residual of +20.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Clay County shows median household earnings sit near $70,010, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Clay County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,995 students), of which Staunton Elementary School is one.

North Clay Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Staunton Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Staunton Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

Staunton Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Staunton Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 26% since 2018, when it stood at 297 (now 373).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Staunton Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.