Jeremiah Gray Elementary School

Jeremiah Gray Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under Perry Township Schools, with 591 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Jeremiah Gray Elementary School sits 36% above that benchmark.

Jeremiah Gray Elementary School is one of 21 schools operated by Perry Township Schools, a district that teaches 16,243 students overall.

On demographics, Jeremiah Gray Elementary School logs that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 12% Black, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jeremiah Gray Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Jeremiah Gray Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jeremiah Gray Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.7%; this one delivers 28.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Jeremiah Gray Elementary School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Jeremiah Gray Kindergarten is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jeremiah Gray Elementary School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 29.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jeremiah Gray Elementary School has increased 26%, going from 468 students in 2018 to 591 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 68% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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