Crestview Elementary School

As a mid-sized primary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, Crestview Elementary School works with 591 students from grades 1 through 6, run under MSD Lawrence Township. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Crestview Elementary School sits 36% above that benchmark.

Across the 16 schools in MSD Lawrence Township (16,747 students total), Crestview Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Crestview Elementary School logs that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 21% White, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Crestview Elementary School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 53% of students at Crestview Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crestview Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.3%; this one delivers 32.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Crestview Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lawrence North High School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crestview Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 535 students in 2018 compared to 591 in 2025.

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