Willow Lake Elementary School

Willow Lake Elementary School operates as a roomy K-5 school in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within MSD Washington Township. Current enrollment sits at 739 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 69% above typical.

Willow Lake Elementary School is one of 14 schools operated by MSD Washington Township, a district that teaches 11,560 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Willow Lake Elementary School logs that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 13% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at Willow Lake Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Willow Lake Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Willow Lake Elementary School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Westlane Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Willow Lake Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

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