Southport Elementary School

Located at 261 E Anniston Dr, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Southport Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 450 students (grades 1 through 5), one of the schools within Perry Township Schools.

Perry Township Schools runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 16,243 students. Southport Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Southport Elementary School records that Asian students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school shows 20% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 4% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Southport Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 17.5%; Southport Elementary School posts 34.7%, +17.1 points above that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household income runs about $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Southport Elementary School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Nearest neighbor: Homecroft Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southport Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.6%.

Southport Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southport Elementary School has contracted 40%, going from 751 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 28% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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