Van Duyn Elementary School

Van Duyn Elementary School is a K-5 school of tight-knit scale in Clinton, Indiana, operated by South Vermillion Com Sch Corp, instructing 242 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 436.

South Vermillion Com Sch Corp runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,548 students. Van Duyn Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Van Duyn Elementary School shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Van Duyn Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Van Duyn Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 38.7%; this one delivers 54.4%, a residual of +15.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Vermillion County put median household earnings sit near $60,200, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Vermillion County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,279 students), of which Van Duyn Elementary School is one.

South Vermillion Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Van Duyn Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Van Duyn Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 222 (now 242).

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