Sand Creek Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Fishers, Indiana, Sand Creek Elementary caters to 520 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within Hamilton Southeastern Schools.

Hamilton Southeastern Schools comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 21,062 students; Sand Creek Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sand Creek Elementary records that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 12% Asian, 12% Black, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Sand Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) records that median household earnings sit near $121,530, 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), Sand Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Sand Creek Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sand Creek Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sand Creek Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sand Creek Elementary has shrank 26%, going from 705 students in 2018 to 520 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 67% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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