North Wayne Elementary School

North Wayne Elementary School is an elementary school of substantial scale in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within MSD Wayne Township, works with 837 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 92% bigger than the state mean of about 436.

Within MSD Wayne Township, which oversees 17 schools and 16,094 students, North Wayne Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, North Wayne Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at North Wayne Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, North Wayne Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 31.8%; actual is 12.9%, a gap of -18.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household income runs about $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), North Wayne Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lew Wallace School 107 - an Exploratory School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Wayne Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Wayne Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 821 students in 2018 compared to 837 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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