Sweetser Elementary School

As a small elementary campus in Sweetser, Indiana, Sweetser Elementary School teaches 200 students from grades 3 through 4, run under Oak Hill United School Corp. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 54% smaller than typical.

Across the 5 schools in Oak Hill United School Corp (1,533 students total), Sweetser Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sweetser Elementary School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sweetser Elementary School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sweetser Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Grant County) reports that median household income runs about $53,522, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Sweetser Elementary School is one of 30 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 10,743 students).

The closest other public school is Oak Hill Junior High School, roughly 2.8 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sweetser Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 200 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.