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Hope, Indiana - 2 schools
An equity score of 38/100 ranks Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp #264 of 373 districts in Indiana (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,566 per pupil, Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp ranks #327 of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending (Indiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
972
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$10,566
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp operates 2 public schools serving 972 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Indiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Bartholomew County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,566 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Indiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.4% local, 66.5% state, and 5.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 38/100, ranked #264 of 373 in Indiana against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (7 AP courses district-wide), a 382.3:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.4% White, 2.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Hope Elementary School, enrolling 547 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Hope Elementary School accounts for 55.7% of all Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp a distant remainder — means Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp student-counselor ratio is 382:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp chronic absenteeism rate is 24.0% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp is typically wider than the Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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