Walnut Grove Elementary School

Walnut Grove Elementary School, an expansive elementary school in Bargersville, Indiana, overseen by Center Grove Community School Corp, instructs 735 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 69% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Center Grove Community School Corp comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 9,736 students; Walnut Grove Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Walnut Grove Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Walnut Grove Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Walnut Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the area at large, Johnson County reports that median household income runs about $90,454, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Johnson County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,824 students), Walnut Grove Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Maple Grove Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Walnut Grove Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Walnut Grove Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

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