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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 46239


At a glance
5
Schools
2,432
Students
2
Districts
Top rankedLowell Elementary School636th of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Lowell Elementary School up 74 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Liberty Park Elementary School 13.5 students per teacher
Summary:

ZIP code 46239 on Indianapolis's far southeast side is home to five elementary schools serving 2,432 students, split between Franklin Township Com School Corp, which runs the K–3 schools Thompson Crossing Elementary School and New Bethel Elementary School, and MSD Warren Township, which runs the K–4 schools Grassy Creek Elementary School, Lowell Elementary School, and Liberty Park Elementary School. Warren enrolls about 58.6% of the group's students; Franklin Township the rest.

Thompson Crossing Elementary School is the largest school, with 568 students, and posts the ZIP's highest math score at 50% proficient, along with the lowest chronic absenteeism at 8.4% — below both Franklin Township's 15.3% and the state's 16.7%. Its ELA (34.67%) still trails district and state averages. Lowell Elementary School is the standout among Warren schools despite having the highest free/reduced lunch rate in the set (72.53%), leading its group in ELA (34.65%), math (40.1%), and science (34.69%), improving in all three subjects year over year, and reaching the 37th percentile with 2 stars.

New Bethel Elementary School has the lowest poverty rate (47.38%) and district-level math (43.09%), but its ELA of 20.33% is 20.54 points below the Franklin Township average. Liberty Park Elementary School spends the most per student ($13,133) with the smallest classes (13.5 students per teacher), yet holds the lowest ELA in the set (17.13%), though its math rose 8.05 points. Grassy Creek Elementary School has the highest absenteeism (17.3%) and the lowest science (12.77%) and math (25.13%) scores. Across the ZIP, math is a relative bright spot — all five schools beat their reported district averages — but no school matched state grade-level averages.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Indiana Department of Education.

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