Mary Adams Elementary School

Mary Adams Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of Franklin Township Com Sch Corp. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades K through 3.

Across the 12 schools in Franklin Township Com Sch Corp (11,385 students total), Mary Adams Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mary Adams Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 33% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 51% of students at Mary Adams Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Marion County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, Mary Adams 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 39.8%; Mary Adams Elementary School posts 58.8%, +19.0 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household earnings sit near $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%. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Mary Adams Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bunker Hill Elementary School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mary Adams Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

Mary Adams Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Mary Adams Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 594 (now 451). Over the same period, the White share declined from 79% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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