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Enrollment
450
Elementary
DISTRICT 554 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AVON COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP·NCES 180027002330
Pine Tree Elementary School
7866 E CR 100 S, Avon, IN 46123 · (317) 544-6500 · Hendricks County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL450 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of Indiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
263 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 23% smaller than its 4th grade class (104).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
52.8%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
65.3%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
57.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.2%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Indiana's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pine Tree Elementary School
Pine Tree Elementary School's state test result (57.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Tree Elementary School this school | 450 | 58.4% | 57.4% |
| Gold Academy Indianapolis | 529 | 61.4% | 22.4% |
| Fairlawn Elementary School Evansville | 450 | 60.4% | 8.9% |
| Mayflower Mill Elementary School Lafayette | 585 | 59.7% | 38.4% |
| Stockwell Elementary School Evansville | 545 | 55.4% | 26.9% |
| Cleveland Elementary School Elkhart | 519 | 56.1% | 26.0% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pine Tree Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Hendricks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #186 of 983 | #18 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #179 of 986 | #20 of 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #198 of 986 | #18 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 450 | #485 of 1,079 | #18 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #485 of 991 | #8 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #127 of 996 | #7 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.4% | #395 of 1,058 | #2 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.2% | #57 of 353 | #3 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
450
+54 (+14%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 460
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 450 | 30 | 15.0:1 | 58% (263) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 29.3 | 13.8:1 | 56% (227) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 29.1 | 14.7:1 | 55% (235) |
| 2020-21 | 396 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 37% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 343 | 17.6 | 19.5:1 | 38% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 364 | 21 | 17.3:1 | 37% (135) |
| 2010-11 | 384 | 17 | 22.6:1 | 29% (113) |
| 2000-01 | 671 | 33 | 20.3:1 | 8% (53) |
| 1990-91 | 460 | 25 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pine Tree Elementary School.
About Pine Tree Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in Avon, Indiana, Pine Tree Elementary School is part of Avon Community School Corp. It reported 450 students in kindergarten through 4 in 2024-25.
The Avon Community School Corp system has 12 schools and 10,742 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Pine Tree Elementary School is White, with 46% of students. Next come 28% Black, 15% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. The county population is about 78% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pine Tree Elementary School scores 67%.
Based on 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, Pine Tree Elementary School has a ratio of 15.0:1. The ratio is within a point of the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana. Income data for the school show 58% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 19 points above the 39% average for public schools in Hendricks County.
Pine Tree Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 91% of Indiana public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Pine Tree Elementary School is in the top 10% of Indiana schools: 57.4% actual against 34.2% predicted.
The school's county is Hendricks County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $101,144 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Public schools in Hendricks County number 47, with about 33,487 students.
Pine Tree Elementary School's nearest public school is Avon High School (about 0.8 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Pine Tree Elementary School is 3rd of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
In 2020-21, Pine Tree Elementary School enrolled 396 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 450.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Pine Tree Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hendricks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
183,344
Census ACS
Median income
$101,144
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
47
33,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Avon Community School Corp
- Avon High SchoolHigh · 3,523 students
- Avon Middle School NorthMiddle · 929 students
- Avon Intermediate School EastMiddle · 837 students
- Avon Middle School SouthMiddle · 821 students
- Maple Elementary SchoolElementary · 784 students
- Avon Intermediate School WestMiddle · 755 students
Other schools in Avon
- Avon High SchoolHigh · 3,523 students
- Avon Middle School NorthMiddle · 929 students
- Avon Intermediate School EastMiddle · 837 students
- Avon Middle School SouthMiddle · 821 students
- Maple Elementary SchoolElementary · 784 students
- Avon Intermediate School WestMiddle · 755 students
Other Pine Tree Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Pine Tree Elementary. Pine Tree Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- PINE TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMONROE, NY · 746 students
- Pine Tree Elementary SchoolKent, WA · 305 students
- Pine Tree Elementary SchoolCtr. Conway, NH · 215 students
Nearby schools
- Avon High School0.8 mi · 3,523
- Cedar Elementary School0.8 mi · 638
- Hickory Elementary School0.8 mi · 589
- Maple Elementary School0.9 mi · 784
- White Oak Early Learning Center0.9 mi · 210
- Avon Middle School South1.1 mi · 821
Frequently asked questions
About Pine Tree Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pine Tree Elementary School?
Pine Tree Elementary School enrolls approximately 450 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Pine Tree Elementary School serve?
Pine Tree Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Pine Tree Elementary School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Pine Tree Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Pine Tree Elementary School?
Student demographics at Pine Tree Elementary School are roughly 46% White, 15% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Pine Tree Elementary School in?
Pine Tree Elementary School is part of Avon Community School Corp.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.