Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch

Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch is a mid-sized elementary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, overseen by Perry Township Schools. The school caters to 579 students in grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 436.

Perry Township Schools comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 16,243 students; Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch is among them.

On demographics, Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch reports that the most-represented group is Asian (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% White, 8% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 4% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of +11.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Douglas MacArthur Kindergarten, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 33.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch's enrollment has contracted 28% since 2018, when it stood at 805 (now 579). White enrollment moved from 41% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Douglas MacArthur Elementary Sch community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.