Sand Creek Intermediate School

As a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Fishers, Indiana, Sand Creek Intermediate School enrolls 812 students from grades 5 through 6, operated by Hamilton Southeastern Schools. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 37% above typical.

Hamilton Southeastern Schools runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 21,062 students. Sand Creek Intermediate School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sand Creek Intermediate School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Sand Creek Intermediate School lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Hamilton County's rate of about 21%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sand Creek Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 57.6%, a residual of +2.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hamilton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $121,530 per year, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Hamilton County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), of which Sand Creek Intermediate School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sand Creek Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sand Creek Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sand Creek Intermediate School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.7%.

Sand Creek Intermediate School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 975 students in 2018 compared to 812 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 68% to 62%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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