Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch

Located at 7525 E Thompson Rd, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch is a medium-sized primary school that instructs 568 students (grades K through 3), run under Franklin Township Com Sch Corp. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch sits 30% larger than that benchmark.

Franklin Township Com Sch Corp comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 11,385 students; Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch is among them.

Demographically, Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch lists that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 10% Black, 9% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.7%; this one delivers 44.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Marion County put the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch is one.

Edgewood Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 49.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thompson Crossing Elementary Sch has stayed largely flat, going from 580 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 74% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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