Public school / Primary
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
Valparaiso, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 181197001889
- District
- Valparaiso Community Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is a public primary school in Valparaiso, Indiana, run by Valparaiso Community Schools. It enrols 273 students — the 69286th 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
273
Teachers
15.0
Students per teacher
18.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
45.4%
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 Valparaiso Community 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.
- 1Valparaiso High School2,098 students
- 2Benjamin Franklin Middle School821 students
- 3Thomas Jefferson Middle School640 students
- 4Heavilin Elementary School505 students
- 5Memorial Elementary School477 students
- 6Flint Lake Elementary School474 students
- 7Cooks Corners Elementary School470 students
- 8Thomas Jefferson Elementary School273 students
- Enrollment−43.9%
- Teachers−50.0%
- Students per teacher+17.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−15.5%
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