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Black student results in Indianapolis Public Schools

Across 37 schools in Indianapolis Public Schools, 13.6% of Black students meet proficient. That is 8.2 points below the Indiana average for Black students.

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19.9%
All students
13.6%
Black
16.1%
Hispanic
43.3%
White

Average across the 37 schools in Indianapolis Public Schools with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 35 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, H L Harshman Middle School reports 55.3% of Black students meeting the standard. Christian Park School 82, in the same district, reports 2.4%. That is a 52.9-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Indianapolis Public Schools

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
H L Harshman Middle School 53% 55.3% 27% 82.4% —
Merle Sidener Gifted Academy 67% 46.2% 59.6% 90.2% —
Eleanor Skillen School 34 15.1% 25% 9.1% 21.9% —
Jonathan Jennings School 109 15% 25% 12.6% — —
William McKinley School 39 33.2% 25% 24.6% 50% —
George Washington Carver School 87 28.6% 23.3% 10.3% — —
Ernie Pyle School 90 19.5% 22.1% 16.4% — —
Lew Wallace School 107 17.6% 19.9% 16.1% — —
Meredith Nicholson School 96 22.4% 19.2% 20.4% — —
Cold Spring School 35.2% 18.9% 28.4% 62.8% —
Brookside School 54 18.5% 17.4% 14.4% — —
Ralph Waldo Emerson School 58 18.4% 17.4% 14.3% — —
IPS/Butler Lab at Eliza Blaker 55 38.7% 15.5% — 60.3% —
Daniel Webster School 46 14.5% 15% 15.5% 12.7% —
Edison School of the Arts 47 17.5% 13.6% 13.6% 28.3% —
Rousseau McClellan School 91 37.2% 12.2% 15.4% 58.1% —
Charles Warren Fairbanks Sch 105 9.7% 11.5% 6.9% — —
Washington Irving Neighborhood School 11.6% 11.5% — — —
HW Longfellow Med/STEM Magnet Midl Magnet 12.7% 8.3% 14% 28.1% —
Anna Brochhausen School 88 11.6% 8.2% 11% — —
Arlington Woods School 99 9.9% 8.2% 10.4% — —
Thomas D Gregg School 15 10.4% 7.6% 13% — —
Northwest Community Middle School 6.2% 7.2% 4% 10.5% —
William Penn School 49 10% 7.2% 7.6% 13.6% —
Carl Wilde School 79 16.2% 6.6% 18.6% — —
Frederick Douglass School 19 11% 6.6% 7% 32.1% —
Center for Inquiry School 27 27.7% 6.4% 15% 56.5% —
James Whitcomb Riley School 43 4.7% 6.1% — — —
IPS/Butler Lab at William Bell 60 22.5% 5.8% 20.8% 60.2% —
Broad Ripple Middle School, an IB World School 18% 5.5% 14.6% 46% —
Clarence Farrington School 61 8.5% 5.3% 10% — —
Robert Lee Frost School 106 4.8% 4.7% 5% — —
Center for Inquiry School 70 60.7% 4.5% 65% 76.8% —
James Russell Lowell School 51 5.4% 3.3% 5.2% — —
Thomas Carr Howe Middle School, an IB World School 8.6% 3.3% 4.2% 15.4% —
Arlington Community Middle School 3.3% 2.7% 3.8% — —
Christian Park School 82 12.9% 2.4% 14.6% 17.4% —

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. Indiana suppresses results for groups with too few students tested. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 576 of Indiana's schools have reportable data. Coverage is grades 3–8; high schools are not included. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Indiana figures should not be compared against another state's.

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