Elwood Elementary School

Elwood Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary school in Elwood, Indiana, one of the schools within Elwood Community School Corp, instructs 412 students, covering grades pre-K through 2.

Within Elwood Community School Corp, which oversees 3 schools and 1,462 students, Elwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Elwood Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, Madison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,037 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Madison County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,227 students), Elwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Elwood Jr-Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Elwood Elementary School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elwood Elementary School has contracted 29%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 412 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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