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What's the most underrated thing about Sugar Grove Elementary School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
817
Elementary
DISTRICT 737 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTER GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP·NCES 180144000662
Sugar Grove Elementary School
4135 W Smith Valley Rd, Greenwood, IN 46142 · (317) 887-4707 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL817 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Indiana public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
291 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 141 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (127) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
49.4%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
57.7%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.3%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sugar Grove Elementary School
Sugar Grove Elementary School's state test result (51.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Grove Elementary School this school | 817 | 35.6% | 51.5% |
| Pleasant Grove Elementary School Greenwood | 739 | 37.1% | 52.1% |
| Fortville Elementary School Fortville | 789 | 32.1% | 43.0% |
| Covington Elementary School Fort Wayne | 746 | 33.2% | 45.8% |
| Highland Elementary School Evansville | 814 | 37.2% | 42.4% |
| Western Intermediate School Russiaville | 622 | 38.3% | 44.2% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sugar Grove Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.5% | #276 of 983 | #11 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #282 of 986 | #8 of 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #259 of 986 | #12 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 817 | #25 of 1,079 | #2 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #841 of 991 | #17 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.2% | #483 of 996 | #12 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.6% | #854 of 1,058 | #19 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.8% | #401 of 597 | #12 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
817
+12 (+1%) vs 2020
+4% since 2000-01, when it was 784
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 817 | 46.3 | 17.6:1 | 36% (291) |
| 2023-24 | 802 | 44.8 | 17.9:1 | 33% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 800 | 44.6 | 17.9:1 | 34% (271) |
| 2020-21 | 805 | 56 | 14.4:1 | 26% (212) |
| 2017-18 | 886 | 46 | 19.3:1 | 21% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 744 | 35 | 21.3:1 | 20% (146) |
| 2010-11 | 781 | 37 | 21.1:1 | 17% (134) |
| 2000-01 | 784 | 35 | 22.4:1 | 9% (73) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sugar Grove Elementary School.
About Sugar Grove Elementary School
Sugar Grove Elementary School is a public large elementary school in Greenwood, Indiana. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 817 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Indiana average about 436 students.
Center Grove Community School Corp counts 9,736 students in its 9 schools, and Sugar Grove Elementary School is one of them.
White students make up a majority at Sugar Grove Elementary School, at 73%. The remaining shares are 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 5% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of Johnson County's population at about 85%. Sugar Grove Elementary School's diversity index is 45%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school employs the equivalent of 46.3 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 17.6:1. That is 2.1 students per teacher above the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Sugar Grove Elementary School is 36%.
allk12 grades Sugar Grove Elementary School a B. The grade compares the school only with Indiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Sugar Grove Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.5%, compared with a predicted 50.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Indiana schools on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Johnson County show that the median household income is $90,454, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sugar Grove Elementary School is one of 40 public schools in the county.
Center Grove Middle School North is the closest public school, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 55.1%, higher than Sugar Grove Elementary School's 51.5%.
NCES describes the area around Sugar Grove Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 805 in 2020-21 to 817 in 2024-25, a change of 12 students. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.4:1 to 17.6:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Sugar Grove Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
166,315
Census ACS
Median income
$90,454
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
28,824 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Center Grove Community School Corp
- Center Grove High SchoolHigh · 2,956 students
- Center Grove Middle School CentralMiddle · 1,278 students
- Center Grove Middle School NorthMiddle · 1,080 students
- Maple Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 755 students
- Pleasant Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 739 students
- Walnut Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 735 students
Other schools in Greenwood
- Center Grove High SchoolHigh · 2,956 students
- Clark Pleasant Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,690 students
- Center Grove Middle School CentralMiddle · 1,278 students
- Greenwood Community High SchHigh · 1,229 students
- Center Grove Middle School NorthMiddle · 1,080 students
- Greenwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 964 students
Other Sugar Grove Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Sugar Grove Elementary. Sugar Grove Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Sugar Grove Elementary SchoolTerre Haute, IN · 360 students
- Sugar Grove ElementarySugar Grove, VA · 88 students
Nearby schools
- Center Grove Middle School North1.2 mi · 1,080
- Pleasant Grove Elementary School1.4 mi · 739
- North Grove Elementary School1.5 mi · 685
- Center Grove Elementary School1.9 mi · 691
- Center Grove Middle School Central2.0 mi · 1,278
- Center Grove High School2.1 mi · 2,956
Frequently asked questions
About Sugar Grove Elementary SchoolHow large is Sugar Grove Elementary School?
Sugar Grove Elementary School enrolls approximately 817 students in grades PK-05.
Is Sugar Grove Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sugar Grove Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Sugar Grove Elementary School have?
Sugar Grove Elementary School employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
How diverse is Sugar Grove Elementary School?
Sugar Grove Elementary School reports a student body of 73% White, 5% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Sugar Grove Elementary School?
Sugar Grove Elementary School is overseen by Center Grove Community School Corp in Johnson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.