Clay Center Elementary School

Located at 12025 Clay Center Rd, in Carmel, Indiana, Clay Center Elementary School is a substantial elementary campus that works with 666 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Carmel Clay Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 53% larger than the state mean of about 436.

Carmel Clay Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 16,145 students. Clay Center Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Clay Center Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Clay Center Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hamilton County (around 21%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Clay Center Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.9%; this one delivers 79.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) shows that median household earnings sit near $121,530, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Hamilton County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), of which Clay Center Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Smoky Row Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clay Center Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 75.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

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