Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl

Located at 10925 E Prospect St, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl is a heavily attended junior high that hosts 1,106 students (grades 5 through 8), operated by MSD Warren Township. Enrollment runs roughly 86% larger than the state mean of about 594.

Across the 15 schools in MSD Warren Township (11,915 students total), Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl shows that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 9% White, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.4%; Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl posts 15.2%, -15.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grassy Creek Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Creston Intermediate & Middle Schl comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 83%: 605 students in 2018 compared to 1,106 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 18% to 9%.

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