Summary:
Elementary schools in the Crawford County Community School Corp consist of three PK–5 schools — East Crawford Elementary School, West Crawford Elementary School, and South Crawford Elementary School — serving 548 students combined in a rural southern Indiana county. The district is ranked 198th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 47th percentile with 2 stars, but that middle-of-the-pack profile is really the average of one strong school and two struggling ones.
East Crawford Elementary School is the clear standout: 193rd of 1,015 elementary schools (81st percentile, 4 stars in each of the last three years). Its all-grade 2025-26 results — ELA 53.77%, Math 66.04%, Science 60.47% — beat the district in every subject and the state in most grade-level tests, including 4th grade Math at 81.4% versus the state's 52%. It also has the largest enrollment (233), the lowest per-student spending ($11,910), and chronic absenteeism of 12.0%, better than the district's 12.7% and the state's 16.7%.
West Crawford Elementary School (32nd percentile, 2 stars) is weakest in ELA (18.57%) and Science (25.00%), and its percentile rank has slipped from 49th to 41st to 32nd; it also has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (68.82%) and student-teacher ratio (18.2). South Crawford Elementary School (21st percentile, 1 star) is below the district in every subject, with Math at 31.71% and Science at 29.17%, yet it has the best attendance (8.8%), the smallest classes (10.8 ratio), and the highest per-student spending ($14,298) — showing that resources and attendance alone are not driving achievement here.
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