College Park Elementary School

Set in Indianapolis, Indiana, College Park Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within MSD Pike Township. It teaches 518 students across grades K through 5.

MSD Pike Township runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 10,674 students. College Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, College Park Elementary School records that 61% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 29% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, College Park Elementary School logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, College Park Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.8%; College Park Elementary School posts 19.6%, -16.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. College Park Elementary School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Greenbriar Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, College Park Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at College Park Elementary School has ticked up 3%, going from 505 students in 2018 to 518 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 53% to 61%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for College Park Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.