Valley Mills Elementary School

Valley Mills Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of MSD Decatur Township. The school serves 554 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Valley Mills Elementary School sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

MSD Decatur Township comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 6,485 students; Valley Mills Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Valley Mills Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. Compared to Marion County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Valley Mills Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Valley Mills Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Decatur High Ability Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Valley Mills Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

Valley Mills Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Valley Mills Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 581 (now 554). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 79% to 52%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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