Public school / Primary
Central Elementary School
Plainfield, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180897001493
- District
- Plainfield Community School Corp
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Central Elementary School is a public primary school in Plainfield, Indiana, run by Plainfield Community School Corp. It enrols 582 students — the 28408th largest of 1,930 public schools in Indiana.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
582
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
18.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
28.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Plainfield Community School Corp
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Plainfield High School1,782 students
- 2Plainfield Community Middle School1,370 students
- 3Central Elementary School582 students
- 4Van Buren Elementary School532 students
- 5Clarks Creek Elementary494 students
- 6Guilford Elementary461 students
- 7Brentwood Elementary School423 students
- 8Little Quakers Academy200 students
- Enrollment+19.5%
- Teachers+3.3%
- Students per teacher+21.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−47.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory