Fishers Elementary School

Fishers Elementary School, a medium-sized primary school in Fishers, Indiana, overseen by Hamilton Southeastern Schools, instructs 437 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

Across the 22 schools in Hamilton Southeastern Schools (21,062 students total), Fishers Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Fishers Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder reads as 14% Black, 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 21%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Fishers Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) shows that median household income runs about $121,530, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Fishers Elementary School is one of 69 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students).

Lantern Road Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fishers Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fishers Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 64.3%.

Fishers Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Fishers Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 437). The White share of enrollment shrank from 74% to 58% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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