Union Elementary School

Located at 3990 W Division Rd, in Bargersville, Indiana, Union Elementary School is a rural-scale elementary school that enrolls 165 students (grades K through 4), operated by Franklin Community School Corp. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Union Elementary School sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Franklin Community School Corp, which oversees 9 schools and 4,966 students, Union Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Union Elementary School logs that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the income-and-resources front, Union Elementary School lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at Union Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Johnson County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, Union Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,454, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Johnson County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,824 students), of which Union Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Walnut Grove Elementary School, roughly 3.8 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Union Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Union Elementary School has ticked up 9%, going from 152 students in 2018 to 165 in 2025.

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