Thorntown Elementary School

Thorntown Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary school in Thorntown, Indiana, one of the schools within Western Boone Co Com Sch Dist, enrolls 429 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Western Boone Co Com Sch Dist comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,574 students; Thorntown Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Thorntown Elementary School logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Boone County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Thorntown Elementary School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at Thorntown Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Boone County (around 22%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Thorntown Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +14.2 points.

Around the school, Boone County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,250 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Boone County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,246 students), of which Thorntown Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Western Boone Jr-Sr High School, around 4.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thorntown Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Thorntown Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 450 (now 429). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 94% to 90%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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