Cardinal Elementary School

Set in Brownsburg, Indiana, Cardinal Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school, run under Brownsburg Community School Corp. It enrolls 650 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 49% larger than typical.

Cardinal Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Brownsburg Community School Corp, a district that enrolls 10,503 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cardinal Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 27% Black, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cardinal 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 44.7%; Cardinal Elementary School posts 65.0%, +20.3 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Hendricks County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,144 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hendricks County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,487 students), Cardinal Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Delaware Trail Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cardinal Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 9%: 594 students in 2018 compared to 650 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 85% to 52%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.