Bunker Hill Elementary School

Bunker Hill Elementary School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within Franklin Township Com Sch Corp, hosting 487 students in grades K through 3.

Bunker Hill Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Franklin Township Com Sch Corp, a district that enrolls 11,385 students overall.

Demographically, Bunker Hill Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 35% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Marion County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bunker Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 56.9%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Bunker Hill Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arlington Elementary School, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bunker Hill Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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