Templeton Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary school in Bloomington, Indiana, Templeton Elementary School educates 412 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by Monroe County Community Sch Corp.

Within Monroe County Community Sch Corp, which oversees 23 schools and 10,480 students, Templeton Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Templeton Elementary School logs that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 14% Black, 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Monroe County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, Templeton Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,868, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,256 students), of which Templeton Elementary School is one.

Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Templeton Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Templeton Elementary School has ticked down 19%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 412 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 65% to 60%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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