Clarks Creek Elementary

Set in Plainfield, Indiana, Clarks Creek Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, part of Plainfield Community School Corp. It serves 544 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Clarks Creek Elementary sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

Within Plainfield Community School Corp, which oversees 9 schools and 5,917 students, Clarks Creek Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Clarks Creek Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% Black, 15% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hendricks County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Clarks Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.6%; this one delivers 40.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hendricks County shows median household earnings sit near $101,144, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Clarks Creek Elementary is one of 47 public schools in Hendricks County (combined enrollment of about 33,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: Little Quakers Academy, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clarks Creek Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clarks Creek Elementary has contracted 41%, going from 918 students in 2018 to 544 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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