College Wood Elementary School

College Wood Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Carmel, Indiana, part of Carmel Clay Schools, teacheing 616 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 41% bigger than typical.

Carmel Clay Schools comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 16,145 students; College Wood Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, College Wood Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 39% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, College Wood Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 6% of students at College Wood Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 21%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, College Wood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.6%, the actual is 82.8%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put median household income runs about $121,530, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hamilton County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), College Wood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Creekside Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, College Wood Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 77.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. College Wood Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 743 (now 616). Asian enrollment moved from 34% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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