Triton Elementary School

Set in Bourbon, Indiana, Triton Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school, operated by Triton School Corporation. It hosts 517 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Triton School Corporation comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 931 students; Triton Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Triton Elementary School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Marshall County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Triton Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.5%; this one delivers 44.5%.

In the broader community, census data for Marshall County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,808 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Marshall County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,661 students), of which Triton Elementary School is one.

Triton Jr-Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Triton Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Triton Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 517). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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