Paramount Cottage Home

Paramount Cottage Home is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within Paramount Cottage Home, with 381 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Operationally, Paramount Cottage Home answers to Paramount Cottage Home, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Paramount Cottage Home lists that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic, 12% White, 11% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, Paramount Cottage Home logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Paramount Cottage Home 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 27.4%; Paramount Cottage Home posts 49.1%, +21.7 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, 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), Paramount Cottage Home is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Paramount Online Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paramount Cottage Home ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Paramount Cottage Home runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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