Amy Beverland Elementary

As an expansive K-5 school in Indianapolis, Indiana, Amy Beverland Elementary works with 800 students from grades 1 through 6, operated by MSD Lawrence Township. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 83% bigger than typical.

MSD Lawrence Township runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 16,747 students. Amy Beverland Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Amy Beverland Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 36% White, 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Amy Beverland Elementary shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Amy Beverland Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Amy Beverland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Amy Beverland Elementary is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Oaklandon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Amy Beverland Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

Amy Beverland Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Amy Beverland Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 797 students in 2018 to 800 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 55% to 36%.

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