Wood Memorial Primary School

Wood Memorial Primary School is a small elementary school in Oakland City, Indiana, (ZIP code 47660). It educates 149 students in pre-K through 6. The school's enrollment is 66% smaller than the 436 average for elementary schools in Indiana.

Wood Memorial Primary School is among 4 schools run by East Gibson School Corporation, which serves 682 students.

Wood Memorial Primary School enrolls a student body that is 95% White. After that, the student body is 3% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Wood Memorial Primary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 9%.

The school employs the equivalent of 15.5 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 9.6:1. Among elementary schools in Indiana, the typical ratio is 15.5:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 60%. For comparison, public schools in Gibson County average 39%.

County data help place the school in context: in Gibson County, median household income is about $67,573, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The public schools of Gibson County number 13 and enroll about 4,664.

The closest public school, Wood Memorial Middle School, is less than a tenth of a mile from Wood Memorial Primary School. Within five miles are 2 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is Rural: Distant: the school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Federal data put enrollment at 275 in 2020-21 and 149 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 9.6:1, from 13.8:1.

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