James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School

Located at 3426 Roosevelt Ave, in Indianapolis, Indiana, James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School is a cozy elementary-level community that enrolls 363 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Indianapolis Public Schools.

Within Indianapolis Public Schools, which oversees 49 schools and 21,055 students, James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School logs that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 33% Hispanic, 7% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Marion County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 25.1%; this one comes in at 5.0%, -20.0 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $66,346, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Paramount Brookside, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.1%.

James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 414 (now 363). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 59% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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