Sugar Grove Elementary School

Sugar Grove Elementary School, a big elementary school in Greenwood, Indiana, part of Center Grove Community School Corp, instructs 817 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 87% above the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Within Center Grove Community School Corp, which oversees 9 schools and 9,736 students, Sugar Grove Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Sugar Grove Elementary School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Sugar Grove Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Sugar Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household income runs about $90,454, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Johnson County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,824 students), of which Sugar Grove Elementary School is one.

Center Grove Middle School North is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sugar Grove Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 886 students in 2018 compared to 817 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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