Hamilton Heights Elementary School

Hamilton Heights Elementary School is an elementary school of sizable scale in Arcadia, Indiana, part of Hamilton Heights School Corp, caters to 889 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Hamilton Heights Elementary School sits 104% above that benchmark.

Within Hamilton Heights School Corp, which oversees 3 schools and 2,341 students, Hamilton Heights Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hamilton Heights Elementary School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Hamilton Heights Elementary School lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at Hamilton Heights Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Hamilton County's rate of about 21%.

With demographic context factored in, Hamilton Heights Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of -5.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Hamilton County shows the typical household earns roughly $121,530 per year, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Hamilton County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), of which Hamilton Heights Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hamilton Heights Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hamilton Heights Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 82%: 488 students in 2018 compared to 889 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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