Stout Field Elementary School

Stout Field Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of MSD Wayne Township, teaches 617 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 42% above the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stout Field Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 41% White, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Stout Field Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 26.2%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household earnings sit near $66,346, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Stout Field Elementary School is one.

Lynhurst 7th & 8th Grade Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stout Field Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Stout Field Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 812 (now 617). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 25% to 43%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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