Tennyson Elementary School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Indiana's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Tennyson Elementary School
Tennyson Elementary School operates as a tiny primary school in Tennyson, Indiana, operated by Warrick County School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 60 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Tennyson Elementary School sits 86% leaner than that benchmark.
Across the 18 schools in Warrick County School Corp (9,858 students total), Tennyson Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Tennyson Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%). That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Tennyson Elementary School has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Warrick County (around 36%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tennyson Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.7%; Tennyson Elementary School posts 57.7%, +27.0 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Warrick County) logs that median household earnings sit near $89,844, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tennyson Elementary School is one of 19 public schools in Warrick County (combined enrollment of about 9,858 students).
Nearest neighbor: Chrisney Elementary School, around 6.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tennyson Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 57.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. Tennyson Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 84 (now 60). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Warrick County at a glance
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