Paramount School of Excellence, located on the Near East Side of Indianapolis, serves 650 grade K-8 students in an innovative environment that instills high expectations for success. Paramount’s mission is to inspire learning through an unparalleled academic approach and to transform communities by changing lives. Ninety of the students’ families have household incomes that are below the poverty level. Integral to Paramount’s approach to education is three experiential learning discovery centers that include an Eco Room, Time and Space Center with planetarium and the Paramount Farm with chickens, dairy goats, apiary and gardens.