Summary:
ZIP code 46259 in Indianapolis is home to three elementary schools — South Creek Elementary (476 students), Mary Adams Elementary School (451 students) and Acton Elementary School (275 students) — all in Franklin Township Com School Corp, all serving grades K–3 and together enrolling 1,202 students. Because these schools end at third grade, only third grade is tested, so the most meaningful benchmarks are the district's third-grade results (ELA 39.47%, Math 53.51%) and the state's third-grade results (ELA 40.8%, Math 51.9%) rather than district-wide "All Grades" figures.
South Creek is the academic standout: 61.59% of students were proficient in ELA and 78.99% in Math in 2025–2026, which is 22.12 points above the district third-grade ELA mark and 25.48 points above its Math mark, and it improved in both subjects over the prior year. It also earned 5-star rankings in 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19, with percentile ranks of 94, 97 and 90. Mary Adams combines solid achievement with the best attendance: 50.55% ELA and 62.64% Math, both above district and state third-grade levels, and chronic absenteeism of just 7.9% — far below the district's 15.3% and the state's 16.7%.
Acton, the smallest school, has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 14.8 but the lowest current results: 37.5% ELA and 43.75% Math, below district and state third-grade benchmarks, and down from 42.11% and 57.89% the year before. Spending is nearly identical across all three schools (a $154 range), so it does not explain the differences, and neither does class size — South Creek has the highest ratio at 17.0 yet the strongest scores. Attendance does not track proficiency here either, since all three schools beat district and state absenteeism rates.
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