Crooked Creek Elementary School

Crooked Creek Elementary School is a mid-tier K-5 school in Indianapolis, Indiana, overseen by MSD Washington Township. The school hosts 460 students in grades K through 5.

MSD Washington Township runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 11,560 students. Crooked Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Crooked Creek Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 19% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Marion County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crooked Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Marion County shows median household income runs about $66,346, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Crooked Creek Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Girls IN STEM Academy, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crooked Creek Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Crooked Creek Elementary School's enrollment has fell 35% since 2018, when it stood at 704 (now 460). White enrollment moved from 28% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Crooked Creek Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.