Harrison Hill Elementary School

Harrison Hill Elementary School is a large elementary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under MSD Lawrence Township. The school works with 750 students in grades 1 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 72% larger than the state mean of about 436.

Within MSD Lawrence Township, which oversees 16 schools and 16,747 students, Harrison Hill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Harrison Hill Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 41% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Harrison Hill Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Harrison Hill Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harrison Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.4%, the actual is 16.3%, a residual of -10.0 points.

Across the wider county, Marion County reports that median household income runs about $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Harrison Hill Elementary School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

The closest other public school is Belzer Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harrison Hill Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 16.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 758 students in 2018 compared to 750 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 36% to 48%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.