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Promise Road Elementary
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Promise Road Elementary
Promise Road Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in Noblesville, Indiana, run under Noblesville Schools, with 810 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 86% above the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.
Noblesville Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 10,524 students; Promise Road Elementary is among them.
On demographics, Promise Road Elementary shows that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 17% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at Promise Road Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Hamilton County's rate of about 21%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Promise Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of -4.1 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hamilton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $121,530 per year, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Hamilton County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), Promise Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Options Noblesville, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Promise Road Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Promise Road Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.4%.
Promise Road Elementary operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Promise Road Elementary has ticked up 10%, going from 735 students in 2018 to 810 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 72% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.
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