Rosa Parks Elementary School

Rosa Parks Elementary School, a heavily attended primary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of Perry Township Schools, instructs 658 students, covering grades 1 through 5. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Rosa Parks Elementary School sits 51% larger than that benchmark.

Perry Township Schools comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 16,243 students; Rosa Parks Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Rosa Parks Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 21% Asian, 17% Black, 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rosa Parks Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Rosa Parks Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rosa Parks Kindergarten, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rosa Parks Elementary School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 47.0%.

Rosa Parks Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 646 students in 2018 compared to 658 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 59% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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