Taylor Elementary School

Taylor Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Kokomo, Indiana, operated by Taylor Community School Corp. The school serves 494 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Within Taylor Community School Corp, which oversees 3 schools and 1,205 students, Taylor Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Taylor Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Black, 14% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the income-and-resources front, Taylor Elementary School shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Howard County (around 49%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Taylor Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Howard County put the typical household earns roughly $64,027 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Taylor Elementary School is one of 29 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 12,786 students).

The closest other public school is Maple Crest STEM Elementary School, roughly 2.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Taylor Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.8%.

Taylor Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Taylor Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 628 (now 494). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 73% to 63%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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