Arlington Elementary School

Arlington Elementary School is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within Franklin Township Com Sch Corp, educateing 454 students in grades K through 3.

Across the 12 schools in Franklin Township Com Sch Corp (11,385 students total), Arlington Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Arlington Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 15% Black, 15% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. Compared to Marion County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Arlington Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arlington Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 22.9%; Arlington Elementary School posts 37.7%, +14.8 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Marion County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Arlington Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bunker Hill Elementary School, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arlington Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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