Hinkle Creek Elementary School

Hinkle Creek Elementary School is a high-enrollment K-5 school in Noblesville, Indiana, run under Noblesville Schools. The school educates 885 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 103% bigger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Hinkle Creek Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Noblesville Schools, a district that serves 10,524 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Hinkle Creek Elementary School logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Hamilton County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hinkle Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of -1.0 points.

In the broader community, Hamilton County reports that median household earnings sit near $121,530, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Hamilton County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), Hinkle Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Noblesville West Middle School, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hinkle Creek Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 59.2%.

Hinkle Creek Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hinkle Creek Elementary School has decreased 5%, going from 931 students in 2018 to 885 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 91% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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