Summary:
Zip code 47971 is home to one elementary school, Prairie Crossing Elementary School, serving students from Kindergarten through 6th grade within the Benton Community School Corp.
Prairie Crossing Elementary School has a student population of 574 and a student-teacher ratio of 15.3. The school's spending per student is $12,388. A significant portion of the student body, 69.16%, qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high percentage of students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The school's chronic absenteeism rate for the 2023-2024 school year was 17.8%. In terms of statewide rankings, the school has seen a decline, moving from 362nd out of 1016 elementary schools in Indiana in 2020-2021 to 607th out of 1016 in 2022-2023, with its SchoolDigger rating dropping from 3 stars to 2 stars during this period.
Academic performance at Prairie Crossing Elementary School shows mixed results across different grades and subjects. In English Language Arts (ELA) for the 2024-2025 school year, overall proficiency was 29.11%, slightly below the district average of 30.61%. Notably, 3rd-grade ELA proficiency was significantly lower at 18.52% compared to the district's 30.97% and the state's 40.3%. However, 5th-grade ELA proficiency at 41.25% exceeded the district average of 39.64%. In Math, the school's overall proficiency for 2024-2025 was 33.56%, below the district average of 37.32%. 3rd-grade math proficiency was 28.4%, considerably lower than the district's 42.48% and the state's 51.5%. Conversely, 4th-grade math proficiency of 43.75% was close to the district average of 45.83%. Science performance in 2024-2025 showed overall proficiency of 40.46%, close to the district average of 42.29%, with 6th-grade science proficiency at 46.27% slightly exceeding both the district (45.71%) and state (42.4%) averages.
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