West Clay Elementary School

West Clay Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus in Carmel, Indiana, operated by Carmel Clay Schools. The school instructs 580 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% larger than the state mean of about 436.

Carmel Clay Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 16,145 students. West Clay Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, West Clay Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 36% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 4% of students at West Clay Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 21%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Clay Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.5%; this one delivers 85.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put median household income runs about $121,530, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. West Clay Elementary School is one of 69 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students).

The closest other public school is Creekside Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Clay Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 77.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Clay Elementary School has edged down 24%, going from 766 students in 2018 to 580 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 24% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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