Mill Creek East Elementary

Set in Clayton, Indiana, Mill Creek East Elementary is a tight-knit elementary campus, operated by Mill Creek Community Sch Corp. It serves 359 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Mill Creek Community Sch Corp (1,572 students total), Mill Creek East Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mill Creek East Elementary shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

Looking at school resources, Mill Creek East Elementary lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mill Creek East Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 47.1%.

Zooming out to the county, Hendricks County reports that median household earnings sit near $101,144, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Hendricks County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,487 students), of which Mill Creek East Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Cascade Middle School, roughly 2.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mill Creek East Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

Mill Creek East Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mill Creek East Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 418 (now 359). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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