Cumberland Road Elem School

As a medium-sized K-5 school in Fishers, Indiana, Cumberland Road Elem School hosts 521 students from grades pre-K through 4, part of Hamilton Southeastern Schools.

Hamilton Southeastern Schools runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 21,062 students. Cumberland Road Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cumberland Road Elem School logs that 57% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 16% Black, 11% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Cumberland Road Elem School logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hamilton County (around 21%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cumberland Road Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.6%; this one delivers 61.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put the typical household earns roughly $121,530 per year, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hamilton County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), of which Cumberland Road Elem School is one.

Fishers Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cumberland Road Elem School. On composite proficiency, Cumberland Road Elem School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cumberland Road Elem School has edged down 11%, going from 588 students in 2018 to 521 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 73% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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