sentences:  About 7.7% of families and 10.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.8% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over.Public schools in Bartholomew County are administered by the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation and the Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corporation.The county's first tuition-free public charter school, the International School of Columbus, a middle school/high school, opened in 2009–10.