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Public school / Primary

West Jay Elementary

Dunkirk, Indiana

NCES ID
180498000919
District
Jay School Corporation
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

West Jay Elementary is a public primary school in Dunkirk, Indiana, run by Jay School Corporation. It enrols 249 students — the 72386th largest of 1,930 public schools in Indiana.

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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

249students

72386th nationally, tied with 118

Teachers

21.0FTE

62587th nationally, tied with 2,266

Students per teacher

11.9students

19803rd nationally, tied with 702

Free or reduced-price lunch

74.7%percent

26619th nationally, tied with 93

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.

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Within Jay School Corporation

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Jay County Jr/Sr High School1,242 students
  2. 2East Jay Elementary540 students
  3. 3East Elementary School412 students
  4. 4Bloomfield Elementary School288 students
  5. 5Redkey Elementary School269 students
  6. 6West Jay Elementary249 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Indiana median across 1,930 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−48.9%
  • Teachers−30.0%
  • Students per teacher−23.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+39.1%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.