Zionsville Middle School

As a big middle-grades school in Zionsville, Indiana, Zionsville Middle School teaches 1,331 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within Zionsville Community Schools. That puts it 124% bigger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Zionsville Community Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 7,971 students. Zionsville Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Zionsville Middle School shows that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder is composed of 5% multiracial, 5% Asian, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Zionsville Middle School has 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Zionsville Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Boone County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Zionsville Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.3%; this one delivers 68.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Boone County shows median household earnings sit near $111,250, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Boone County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,246 students), Zionsville Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Zionsville Community High School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Zionsville Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 73.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 13%: 1,174 students in 2018 compared to 1,331 in 2025.

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