Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy

Set in Martinsville, Indiana, Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy is a medium-sized elementary-level community, part of MSD Martinsville Schools. It instructs 375 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy is one of 10 schools operated by MSD Martinsville Schools, a district that instructs 3,998 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Morgan County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.0%.

In the surrounding community, Morgan County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,429 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Morgan County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,142 students), of which Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Bell Intermediate Academy, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.