Tenth Street Elementary School

Tenth Street Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Anderson, Indiana, one of the schools within Anderson Community School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 529 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 21% bigger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Anderson Community School Corp comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 6,181 students; Tenth Street Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tenth Street Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 17% multiracial, 13% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Madison County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Tenth Street Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.6%; this one delivers 18.6%.

In the broader community, Madison County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,037, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Tenth Street Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 18,227 students).

Nearest neighbor: Anderson Intermediate School, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tenth Street Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 17.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Tenth Street Elementary School's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 638 (now 529). White enrollment moved from 63% to 47% across the same window.

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