Robey Elementary School

Robey Elementary School is one of the sizable elementary schools in Indianapolis, Indiana, overseen by MSD Wayne Township, with 847 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Robey Elementary School sits 94% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Robey Elementary School shows that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% White, 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Robey Elementary School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Robey Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at Robey Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Robey Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Marion County shows median household earnings sit near $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Robey Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Wayne Elementary School, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Robey Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 19.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robey Elementary School has increased 16%, going from 729 students in 2018 to 847 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 52% to 32% over that span.

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