Fall Creek Valley Middle School

Fall Creek Valley Middle School is a heavily attended junior high in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under MSD Lawrence Township. The school teaches 1,355 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 128% bigger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

MSD Lawrence Township comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 16,747 students; Fall Creek Valley Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Fall Creek Valley Middle School records that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 32% Hispanic, 18% White, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, The school employs 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Fall Creek Valley Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fall Creek Valley Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.6%; this one delivers 26.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household income runs about $66,346, 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 Fall Creek Valley Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Forest Glen Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fall Creek Valley Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.9%.

Fall Creek Valley Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Fall Creek Valley Middle School's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,275 (now 1,355). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 26% to 32% over that span.

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