Yorktown Middle School

Located at 8820 W Smith St, in Yorktown, Indiana, Yorktown Middle School is a medium-sized middle school that hosts 687 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Yorktown Community Schools.

Within Yorktown Community Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 2,793 students, Yorktown Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Yorktown Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Delaware County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Yorktown Middle School reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Delaware County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Yorktown Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Delaware County reports that median household earnings sit near $58,127, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Delaware County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,683 students), of which Yorktown Middle School is one.

Yorktown Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yorktown Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Yorktown Middle School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 41.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Yorktown Middle School's enrollment has edged up 20% since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 687). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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