The top reported proficiency rate is 50% in Math. The lowest is 43% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Central Elementary School
Central Elementary School is a regular public school serving grades three through five in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, part of the Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation. The school enrolls about this many students for an elementary building serving three grade levels, and a substantial share of those students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller number of students identifying as two or more races, Hispanic, Black, Asian, or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
On the state ILEARN assessments, Central’s proficiency rates across math, English language arts, science, and social studies are in the range that, when averaged, places the school above the midpoint among the three districts in Dearborn County. In math and science, roughly half of students met the state’s proficiency benchmark in the most recent testing year, while in English language arts the share was slightly lower, and in grade-level social studies it was near half. These are measures of how students performed at a single point in time; the data does not include multi-year trends, so a parent may want to ask the school about changes over time and how the school uses assessment results to guide instruction.
The school itself is a standard elementary configuration, not a charter or magnet, and no Title I status was reported. The district operates a primary school for earlier grades, Central for upper elementary, a middle school in Greendale, and a high school. The schools are distributed within the community rather than clustered on a single campus. The district appears stable; a search for recent parent-relevant changes such as boundary shifts or new programming turned up no specific developments.
Lawrenceburg is the county seat of Dearborn County, a small river city with a historic downtown core listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Industrial employers such as MGP Indiana (a whiskey distillery) and Anchor Glass Container are present, along with a riverboat casino and recreational destinations like Perfect North Slopes. The city’s population is growing slowly. Housing values in the area sit somewhat above the state median but below the national median, and with the current mortgage rate environment, affordability is a typical consideration for the region. The city positions itself as accessible to Cincinnati, with a nearby interstate.
For a family considering Central Elementary, the school offers a conventional upper-elementary program in a small-city setting with a modestly diverse student population and test results that are in the middle of the range locally. Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate, and data on chronic absenteeism, staffing ratios, and discipline are not available in this profile, so those are points a family may wish to explore directly with the school or district. The absence of those figures does not imply a problem; it simply reflects the reporting scope. A parent looking into this school should feel comfortable asking about class sizes, student support services, and how the school works with students who are not yet meeting proficiency benchmarks, since the assessment data shows room for growth in English and mathematics.
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