Southside Elementary School
Columbus, IN · Middle School · Grades -1-6
Southside Elementary School is a middle school in Columbus, IN with 905 students enrolled and a 72% proficiency rate. Part of Bartholomew Con School Corp. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Southside Elementary School is a middle school located in Columbus, Indiana. The school serves 905 students in grades -1-6. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.9:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 72% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
20% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Southside Elementary School is part of the Bartholomew Con School Corp in Indiana.
How This School Compares
Southside Elementary School has 905 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Bartholomew Con School Corp (727 students). Its 72% proficiency rate is 21 percentage points above the district average of 51%. Compared to the Indiana state average of 49%, the school performs 24 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Southside Elementary School has 905 students enrolled in grades -1-6. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.9:1.
According to EDFacts data, 72% of students at Southside Elementary School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Southside Elementary School is part of the Bartholomew Con School Corp in Columbus, Indiana. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.