Public school / Primary
Mary Raber Elementary School
Columbia City, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180228002108
- District
- Whitley County Con Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mary Raber Elementary School is a public primary school in Columbia City, Indiana, run by Whitley County Con Schools. It enrols 251 students — the 72147th 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
251
Teachers
15.0
Students per teacher
16.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
51.0%
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 Whitley County Con Schools
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.
- 1Columbia City High School1,147 students
- 2Indian Springs Middle School834 students
- 3Little Turtle Elementary School604 students
- 4Northern Heights Elementary School510 students
- 5Coesse School271 students
- 6Mary Raber Elementary School251 students
- Enrollment−48.5%
- Teachers−50.0%
- Students per teacher+7.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−5.0%
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