Gold Academy

Gold Academy is a moderately sized elementary campus in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under MSD Decatur Township. The school instructs 529 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Gold Academy sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in MSD Decatur Township (6,485 students total), Gold Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Gold Academy logs that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Black, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Gold Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gold Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household income runs about $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Gold Academy is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

The closest other public school is Blue Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gold Academy comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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