White River Valley Middle School

White River Valley Middle School is a 6-8 campus of very small scale in Lyons, Indiana, operated by White River Valley School District, serveing 151 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 75% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Within White River Valley School District, which oversees 3 schools and 704 students, White River Valley Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, White River Valley Middle School records that nearly all students (91%) are White; the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), White River Valley Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Greene County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,094, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Greene County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,739 students), of which White River Valley Middle School is one.

White River Valley High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, White River Valley Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

White River Valley Middle School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 32%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 151 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for White River Valley Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.