Sugar Creek Elementary School

Sugar Creek Elementary School is one of the intimate primary schools in Crawfordsville, Indiana, overseen by North Montgomery Com Sch Corp, with 271 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Sugar Creek Elementary School sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in North Montgomery Com Sch Corp (1,847 students total), Sugar Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Sugar Creek Elementary School shows that nearly all students (94%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at Sugar Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Sugar Creek Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.5%; Sugar Creek Elementary School posts 62.1%, +23.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,479, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Sugar Creek Elementary School is one of 17 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 6,261 students).

The closest other public school is Laura Hose Elementary School, roughly 4.7 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Sugar Creek Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

Sugar Creek Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 277 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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