News, Arts and Culture from WFIU Public Radio and WTIU Public Television

Give Now

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Some web content from Indiana Public Media is unavailable during our transition to a new web publishing platform. We apologize for the inconvenience.

school counselors

A ‘crisis’ of their own: Indiana school counselors detail overwhelming duties, pushing some out

Indiana’s student-to-counselor ratio is currently the highest in the country, with schools employing just 1,494 counselors statewide for more than 1 million students. Compared to the national average, that’s 286 more students per counselor.
Indiana has a high counselor/student ratio

Bente Bouthier

Indiana has a student-to-counselor ratio of 694 to 1, well above the national average.