Mohawk Trails Elementary School

Mohawk Trails Elementary School is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Carmel, Indiana, part of Carmel Clay Schools, works with 543 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 25% above typical.

Within Carmel Clay Schools, which oversees 15 schools and 16,145 students, Mohawk Trails Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Mohawk Trails Elementary School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Mohawk Trails Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hamilton County shows median household income runs about $121,530, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hamilton County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), of which Mohawk Trails Elementary School is one.

Clay Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mohawk Trails Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 575 students in 2018 compared to 543 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 90% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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