NCES CCD 2024-25 21 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in Fishers, IN

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21 public K-12 schools in Fishers from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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21
Schools
20,449
Students
45.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fishers has more public-school enrollment than 93% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fishers sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

12 of Fishers's 21 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Fishers's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 73rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 36th percentile. The 37-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 7%
School count
Top 14%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
36th percentile

Fishers High School accounts for 17.6% of all Fishers public-school enrollment

That concentration means Fishers-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fishers school enrollment varies 8.2× across entities

Fishers school enrollment ranges from 437 students (lowest) to 3,590 students (highest), a spread of 3,153 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fishers operates one school district — a single-district system

Fishers's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fishers student-teacher ratio is 16.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Fishers is typically wider than the Fishers-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Hoosier Road Elementary School 52
2. Sand Creek Intermediate School 50
3. Lantern Road Elementary School 50
4. Geist Elementary School 49
5. Fishers Elementary School 49
6. Riverside Intermediate School 48
7. Riverside Junior High 48
8. Southeastern Elementary School 48
9. Hamilton Se Int and Jr High Sch 47
10. Fall Creek Intermediate School 47
11. Fishers Junior High School 47
12. Fall Creek Elementary School 47
13. Cumberland Road Elem School 47
14. Harrison Parkway Elementary School 46
15. Thorpe Creek Elementary 45
16. New Britton Elementary School 45
17. Sand Creek Elementary 44
18. Brooks School Elementary 41
19. Fall Creek Junior High 40
20. Hamilton Southeastern Hs 35
21. Fishers High School 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fishers

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Harrison Parkway Elementary School 63.9/100
  2. 2 Cumberland Road Elem School 62.8/100
  3. 3 Fishers Elementary School 61.6/100
  4. 4 Brooks School Elementary 60.6/100
  5. 5 Sand Creek Elementary 59.5/100

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Which Fishers school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hoosier Road Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fishers schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fishers, IN? ▼

Fishers has 21 public schools with a total enrollment of 20,449 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.