Indianapolis Public Schools
Public school district based in Indianapolis, Indiana. NCES district ID 1804770; state ID IN-5385.
District totals on this page are sums of the school records in the 2024–25 Common Core of Data. They can differ from totals the district reports itself, which may include students or staff not assigned to a school. Why.
Operating schoolsDefinition
50
Enrollment (sum of schools)Definition
21,055
Teachers (FTE, sum of schools)Definition
1,716.0
Students per teacher FTEDefinition
Not shown: incomplete reporting
Charter schoolsDefinition
0
A district ratio is shown only when every school reported both enrollment and teachers. School-level ratios are in the table below.
Enrollment by grade
| Group | Students | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-Kindergarten | 836 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,757 | |
| Grade 1 | 1,811 | |
| Grade 2 | 1,767 | |
| Grade 3 | 1,832 | |
| Grade 4 | 1,765 | |
| Grade 5 | 1,752 | |
| Grade 6 | 1,238 | |
| Grade 7 | 1,334 | |
| Grade 8 | 1,273 | |
| Grade 9 | 1,430 | |
| Grade 10 | 1,521 | |
| Grade 11 | 1,405 | |
| Grade 12 | 1,284 | |
| Ungraded | 50 |
Students by race/ethnicity
| Group | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| American Indian or Alaska Native | Suppressed | |
| Asian | 0.9% | |
| Black or African American | 38.1% | |
| Hispanic/Latino | 37.1% | |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | Suppressed | |
| Two or more races | 5.8% | |
| White | 18.0% |
Race/ethnicity categories are those states report to NCES. Shares describe the district as a whole, not any one school or student.
Students by sex
| Group | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Female | 47.9% | |
| Male | 52.1% |
Schools in this district
Sorted by enrollment (a size measure, not a ranking). Locale mix: City 50.
| School | Grades | Type | Students | Teacher FTE | Students / FTE | Locale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal Technical High School Indianapolis | 9–12 | Regular | 2,360 | 158.0 | 14.9 | City: Large |
| Crispus Attucks High School Indianapolis | 9–12 | Regular | 1,269 | 74.0 | 17.1 | City: Large |
| Shortridge High School Indianapolis | 9–12 | Regular | 1,206 | 82.8 | 14.6 | City: Large |
| George Washington High School Indianapolis | 9–12 | Regular | 729 | 50.0 | 14.6 | City: Large |
| Northwest Middle School - an IB World School Indianapolis | 6–8 | Regular | 623 | 51.0 | 12.2 | City: Large |
| Broad Ripple Middle School - an IB World School Indianapolis | 6–8 | Regular | 623 | 52.5 | 11.9 | City: Large |
| Edison School of the Arts 47 Indianapolis | K–8 | Regular | 617 | 37.0 | 16.7 | City: Large |
| H.W. Longfellow Middle School - an IB World School Indianapolis | 6–8 | Regular | 538 | 44.5 | 12.1 | City: Large |
| Thomas Gregg Neighborhood School 15 Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 525 | 39.0 | 13.5 | City: Large |
| H. L. Harshman Middle School Indianapolis | 6–8 | Regular | 509 | 36.5 | 13.9 | City: Large |
| Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 506 | 32.0 | 15.8 | City: Large |
| Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 472 | 35.5 | 13.3 | City: Large |
| Thomas Carr Howe Middle School - an IB World School Indianapolis | 6–8 | Regular | 455 | 42.5 | 10.7 | City: Large |
| Clarence Farrington School 61 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 451 | 39.5 | 11.4 | City: Large |
| Lew Wallace School 107 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 440 | 33.5 | 13.1 | City: Large |
| Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 416 | 30.0 | 13.9 | City: Large |
| Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 398 | 30.0 | 13.3 | City: Large |
| Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 391 | 32.0 | 12.2 | City: Large |
| William McKinley School 39 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 386 | 27.0 | 14.3 | City: Large |
| William Bell School 60 - a Butler Lab Reggio Emilia School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 381 | 36.5 | 10.4 | City: Large |
| William Penn Middle School - a STEM School Indianapolis | 6–8 | Regular | 367 | 36.3 | 10.1 | City: Large |
| Brookside School 54 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 366 | 31.5 | 11.6 | City: Large |
| Arlington Middle School - a STEM School Indianapolis | 6–8 | Regular | 365 | 30.5 | 12 | City: Large |
| James Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 363 | 31.0 | 11.7 | City: Large |
| Sankofa School of Success at Arlington Woods School 99 Indianapolis | PK–6 | Regular | 361 | 17.0 | 21.2 | City: Large |
| Joseph J. Bingham School 84 Center for Inquiry Indianapolis | K–5 | Regular | 360 | 27.0 | 13.3 | City: Large |
| Cold Spring School Indianapolis | K–8 | Regular | 359 | 27.0 | 13.3 | City: Large |
| Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry Indianapolis | K–5 | Regular | 351 | 24.5 | 14.3 | City: Large |
| Charity Dye School 27 Center for Inquiry Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 348 | 33.3 | 10.4 | City: Large |
| Eleanor Skillen School 34 - a Montessori School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 328 | 33.0 | 9.9 | City: Large |
| Anna Brochhausen School 88 - a STEM School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 326 | 24.0 | 13.6 | City: Large |
| Robert Lee Frost School 106 - a STEM School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 308 | 19.3 | 15.9 | City: Large |
| Benjamin Harrison School 2 Center for Inquiry Indianapolis | K–5 | Regular | 303 | 25.0 | 12.1 | City: Large |
| Eliza Baker School 55 - a Butler Lab Reggio Emilia School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 301 | 21.0 | 14.3 | City: Large |
| Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 275 | 23.0 | 12 | City: Large |
| Ernie Pyle School 90 - a Paideia School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 268 | 24.0 | 11.2 | City: Large |
| Fredrick Douglas School 19 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 259 | 24.0 | 10.8 | City: Large |
| Christian Park School 82 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 251 | 20.0 | 12.6 | City: Large |
| George Washington Carver School 87 - a Montessori School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 246 | 24.0 | 10.3 | City: Large |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson School 58 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 241 | 22.0 | 11 | City: Large |
| James Whitcomb Riley School 43 Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 240 | 27.5 | 8.7 | City: Large |
| Washington Irving Neighborhood School 14 Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 230 | 18.0 | 12.8 | City: Large |
| Merle Sidener Academy 59 - a High Ability School Indianapolis | 1–5 | Regular | 228 | 21.0 | 10.9 | City: Large |
| Theodore Potter School 74 - a Dual Language School Indianapolis | K–5 | Regular | 208 | 22.0 | 9.5 | City: Large |
| James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 173 | 25.3 | 6.8 | City: Large |
| George W. Julian School 57 Center for Inquiry Indianapolis | PK–5 | Regular | 165 | 19.5 | 8.5 | City: Large |
| Impact Academy 2 Indianapolis | K–12 | Regular | 64 | 28.7 | 2.2 | City: Large |
| Impact Academy 1 Indianapolis | PK–12 | Regular | 56 | 29.2 | 1.9check | City: Large |
| Impact Academy 3 Indianapolis | K–12 | Regular | 50 | 43.5 | 1.1check | City: Large |
| Thrival Academy Indianapolis | 9–12 | Regular | 0 | Not reported | — | City: Large |
Finance and graduation rates
District finance (NCES F-33, fiscal year 2023) and four-year graduation rates (ED Data Express, 2022–23) are being added. They will appear here with their own reporting years. See School Finance and Education Outcomes.
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Sources for this page
- NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), School Directory 2024–25, version 1a. File
ccd_sch_029_2425_w_1a_073025.zip, last checked 2026-11-06. - NCES CCD School Membership 2024–25, version 1a. File
ccd_sch_052_2425_l_1a_073025.zip, last checked 2026-11-06. - NCES CCD School Staff 2024–25, version 1a. File
ccd_sch_059_2425_l_1a_073025.zip, last checked 2026-11-06. - NCES EDGE Public School Geocodes 2024–25. File
EDGE_GEOCODE_PUBLICSCH_2425.zip, last checked 2026-11-06.
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