Photo: Carol M. Highsmith · Public domainFishers’s public schools outscore 97% of Indiana districts
61% of students in Fishers’s public schools are proficient in math, above the Indiana average (38%). The grade covers the public school district serving Fishers, from kindergarten through graduation, on state tests and graduation. Each state writes its own tests, so this is the one TownRatings grade compared within Indiana, not nationally.
From Indiana state tests taken in spring 2022, when 100% of students in the tested grades sat them, and the class of 2023’s four-year graduation rate, as reported to the U.S. Department of Education.
Fishers’s schools, in brief
Above the state on both counts
Reading proficiency is 62% and math 61% in spring 2022, against 41% and 38% statewide; 99–100% of the class of 2023 graduated in four years, against 88%. Test scores ↓
Spending and class size
The district spends $12,846 per student, against $13,688 across Indiana (FY2024). Spending doesn’t count toward the grade. Districts ↓
13 elementary schools, then four middle and two high schools
Which school depends on the address at every step. See the path ↓
Written from the figures on this page. Tests are from 2021–22, graduation from the class of 2023; each school’s own letter uses 2020–21 results.
What’s behind Fishers’s grade
A+: better than 97% of Indiana school districts, #7 of 592 Indiana towns. Test scores and graduation are both above the Indiana average; graduation is the stronger of the two.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Fishers, with each school’s own grade.
9th grade in Fishers · depends on your address
Fishers High School
Grades 9–12 · 3,590 students · 21:1 students per teacher
Hamilton Southeastern HS
Grades 9–12 · 3,504 students · 20:1 students per teacher
10th grade in Fishers · depends on your address
Fishers High School
Grades 9–12 · 3,590 students · 21:1 students per teacher
Hamilton Southeastern HS
Grades 9–12 · 3,504 students · 20:1 students per teacher
11th grade in Fishers · depends on your address
Fishers High School
Grades 9–12 · 3,590 students · 21:1 students per teacher
Hamilton Southeastern HS
Grades 9–12 · 3,504 students · 20:1 students per teacher
12th grade in Fishers · depends on your address
Fishers High School
Grades 9–12 · 3,590 students · 21:1 students per teacher
Hamilton Southeastern HS
Grades 9–12 · 3,504 students · 20:1 students per teacher
Fishers’s public schools are run by Hamilton Southeastern Schools, which also serves Delaware, Fall Creek, Noblesville and Wayne. To confirm the school for a specific address, ask the district.
The district
Spending and class size are shown but don’t count toward the grade. Each district’s own page has every school.
Well above the state in reading
Fishers vs. its neighbors
Schools grades for the Indiana towns that share Fishers’s borders.
| Town | Schools | Main districts |
|---|---|---|
| Fishers | A+ | Hamilton Southeastern Schools |
| Delaware | A+ | Hamilton Southeastern Schools |
| Noblesville | A+ | Noblesville Schools PK–12 · Hamilton Southeastern Schools PK–12 |
| Clay | A+ | Carmel Clay Schools |
| Carmel | A+ | Carmel Clay Schools |
| Fall Creek | A+ | Hamilton Southeastern Schools |
| Indianapolis | — | — |
| Lawrence | C | Lawrence Township Metropolitan |
| Vernon | A− | Mount Vernon Community School Corporation |
| McCordsville | A− | Mount Vernon Community School Corporation |
| Fortville | A− | Mount Vernon Community School Corporation |
| Noblesville Township | — | Noblesville Schools |
3 of the 11 neighbors share Hamilton Southeastern Schools with Fishers, so their letters differ mainly through other districts.
Every school in Fishers
19 schools. Each public school’s letter compares its own 2020–21 reading and math results with Indiana’s other public schools (the newest school-level results we have).
Questions about Fishers’s schools
Are Fishers’s schools good?
By Indiana’s own tests, yes: the public schools Fishers children attend outscore 97% of Indiana’s school districts on tests and graduation, an A+ Schools grade, #7 of 592 Indiana towns. Among towns with similar incomes they beat 96%. Tests are from 2021–22, graduation from the class of 2023.
What school district is Fishers in?
Hamilton Southeastern Schools, which runs grades PK–12 and enrolls 21,062 students in 22 schools (2024–25).
Where do Fishers kids go to high school?
One of 2 high schools, depending on your address: Fishers High School and Hamilton Southeastern HS.
What is Fishers’s graduation rate?
99–100% of the class of 2023 in Hamilton Southeastern Schools graduated in four years, against 88% across Indiana.
How much does Fishers spend per student?
$12,846 in Hamilton Southeastern Schools (FY2024), against $13,688 across Indiana. Spending doesn’t count toward the grade.
Parents talk
What Fishers families are saying about school.
Looking for colleges? Colleges near Fishers → They have their own page.
School data: state test results (2021–22, with participation) and four-year graduation rates (class of 2023) reported to the U.S. Department of Education (EDFacts via ED Data Express); each school’s own letter uses its 2020–21 results (EDFacts via the Urban Institute); schools and enrollment from NCES (2024–25; private schools 2023–24); spending from the Census Bureau’s school finance survey (FY2024). The School Grade is our own summary, graded within Indiana. Stars are from neighbors.