Creekside Elementary School

Creekside Elementary School is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Franklin, Indiana, run under Franklin Community School Corp, with 517 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Creekside Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Franklin Community School Corp, a district that serves 4,966 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Creekside Elementary School lists that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Creekside Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Johnson County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Creekside Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.0%; Creekside Elementary School posts 53.6%, +15.6 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Johnson County put the typical household earns roughly $90,454 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Johnson County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,824 students), Creekside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Custer Baker Intermediate School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Creekside Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Creekside Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 586 students in 2018 compared to 517 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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