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What do you wish you knew before starting at Lynwood Elementary?
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Enrollment
583
Elementary
DISTRICT 502 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MSD DECATUR TOWNSHIP·NCES 180264001065
Lynwood Elementary
4640 Santa Fe Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46241 · (317) 243-7559 · Marion County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of Indiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
382 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 147 | 25% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 54 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 13% larger than its 6th grade class (54).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
18.6%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
18.9%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
18.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.2%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lynwood Elementary
Lynwood Elementary's state test result (18.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynwood Elementary this school | 583 | 65.5% | 18.2% |
| Forest Park Elementary School Fort Wayne | 558 | 66.3% | 26.7% |
| Gold Academy Indianapolis | 529 | 61.4% | 22.4% |
| Jeff H Towles Intermediate School Fort Wayne | 600 | 60.0% | 36.1% |
| Weisser Park Elementary School Fort Wayne | 632 | 64.1% | 42.1% |
| Valley Mills Elementary School Indianapolis | 554 | 65.7% | 21.0% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lynwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #864 of 983 | #89 of 140 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #880 of 986 | #97 of 142 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #856 of 986 | #89 of 142 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #204 of 1,079 | #45 of 157 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #282 of 991 | #51 of 142 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #86 of 996 | #29 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.5% | #240 of 1,058 | #77 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #466 of 597 | #74 of 86 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
583
-62 (-10%) vs 2020
+61% since 2000-01, when it was 362
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 29.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 583 | 42 | 13.9:1 | 66% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 673 | 39.7 | 17.0:1 | 76% (510) |
| 2022-23 | 634 | 40.3 | 15.8:1 | 79% (502) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | 22 | 29.3:1 | 59% (382) |
| 2017-18 | 613 | 28 | 21.9:1 | 51% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 26 | 22.2:1 | 57% (329) |
| 2010-11 | 491 | 16 | 30.7:1 | 58% (283) |
| 2000-01 | 362 | 11 | 32.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lynwood Elementary.
About Lynwood Elementary
The public elementary school Lynwood Elementary is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It serves 583 students in pre-K through 6. The average among elementary schools in Indiana is roughly 436 students; this school is 34% larger than that.
The 9 schools in MSD Decatur Township enroll 6,485 students altogether, Lynwood Elementary among them.
At Lynwood Elementary, the largest share of students is White, at 42%. The remaining shares are 27% Black, 22% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. Marion County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school's share is lower. Lynwood Elementary's diversity index is 70%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teacher staffing is 42 full-time equivalents, or about 13.9 students per teacher. This ratio sits 1.6 below the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 66%.
Lynwood Elementary is graded D by allk12, scoring above 9% of Indiana public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Lynwood Elementary is 11.0 points below its prediction. Actual: 18.2%. Predicted: 29.2%.
Among Marion County residents, the median household income is $66,346, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Besides Lynwood Elementary, Marion County has 273 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Lynhurst 7th & 8th Grade Center, is about 0.8 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 30.0%; Lynwood Elementary's is 18.2%, ranking 5th of 7.
Locale data from NCES put Lynwood Elementary inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment declined 10% from its 2020-21 level of 645. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 29.3:1 to 13.9:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Lynwood Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
975,809
Census ACS
Median income
$66,346
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
274
161,456 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MSD Decatur Township
- Decatur Central High SchoolHigh · 1,974 students
- Decatur Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,000 students
- Blue AcademyElementary · 687 students
- West Newton Elementary SchoolElementary · 559 students
- Valley Mills Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Gold AcademyElementary · 529 students
Other schools in Indianapolis
- Indiana Connections AcademyCombined · 5,376 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 3,682 students
- Franklin Central High SchoolHigh · 3,438 students
- Warren Central High SchoolHigh · 3,391 students
- Ben Davis High SchoolHigh · 3,315 students
- Pike High SchoolHigh · 3,188 students
Other Lynwood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Lynwood Elementary. Lynwood Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Lynwood ElementaryNovato, CA · 260 students
Nearby schools
- Lynhurst 7th & 8th Grade Center0.8 mi · 1,135
- Stephen Decatur Elementary School0.8 mi · 496
- Achieve Virtual Education Academy1.6 mi · 668
- Stout Field Elementary School1.6 mi · 617
- Maplewood Elementary School2.1 mi · 714
- Valley Mills Elementary School2.1 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About Lynwood ElementaryHow large is Lynwood Elementary?
Lynwood Elementary enrolls approximately 583 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Lynwood Elementary serve?
Lynwood Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Lynwood Elementary have?
Lynwood Elementary employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lynwood Elementary?
At Lynwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 42% White, 22% Hispanic, 27% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Lynwood Elementary public or private?
Lynwood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by MSD Decatur Township.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.