Harrison Parkway Elementary School

Harrison Parkway Elementary School is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in Fishers, Indiana, part of Hamilton Southeastern Schools, works with 568 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 30% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Hamilton Southeastern Schools runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 21,062 students. Harrison Parkway Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Harrison Parkway Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hamilton County (around 21%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harrison Parkway Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.4%; Harrison Parkway Elementary School posts 65.9%, +18.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put the typical household earns roughly $121,530 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Harrison Parkway Elementary School is one of 69 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cumberland Road Elem School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harrison Parkway Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harrison Parkway Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 568 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 72% to 54%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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