Schools · Center
Center, IN schools
Center’s public schools score well below Indiana’s averages: 20% of students are proficient in reading against 42.6% statewide, and 76% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.9%. Kids attend one of 17 schools through grade 8, then one of 5 middle schools and Arsenal Technical High School or Crispus Attucks High School or Shortridge High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D
Center’s School Grade: D
The public schools Center’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 86% of Indiana’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
DTest scoresDGraduation
Indiana school districts we grade (390)Better than 14%
Lower resultsHigher results
Indiana towns with similar household incomes (756)Better than 1%
High confidence. Built on 11,627 tested students and a graduating class of 1,328; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Indiana’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Indiana only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Indiana with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Center kids go to school
Grades 9–12
DArsenal Technical High School or DCrispus Attucks High School or C+Shortridge High School
Depends on your address Indianapolis Public SchoolsBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Indianapolis)20%
State average 42.6%
Math (grades PK–12, Indianapolis)14%
State average 35.8%
Graduation · class of 2020
76% graduate on time
Graduation rate
76%
IN: 90.9%
Graduating class
1,328
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #549 of 554 IN towns →
Districts
The district serving Center
Indianapolis Public SchoolsGrades PK–12 · 50 schools · 21,055 students
$22,943 per studentIN $13,688DEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 71 schools in Center
Showing 1–30 of 71 schools
Paramount BrooksideElementary · Grades K–8 · 843 students
B+CharterGlobal Preparatory AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 742 students
DCharterKIPP Indy Unite ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 721 students
D-CharterMatchbook LearningElementary · Grades K–8 · 707 students
DCharterEdison School of the Arts 47Elementary · Grades K–8 · 617 students
DPublicSE Neighborhood Sch of ExcellenceElementary · Grades K–8 · 588 students
DCharterThomas Gregg Neighborhood School 15Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 525 students
D-PublicChristel House Academy SouthElementary · Grades K–8 · 513 students
CCharterEmma Donnan Elementary and MiddleElementary · Grades K–8 · 451 students
DCharterHerron Preparatory AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 428 students
CharterDaniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 416 students
D-PublicVision AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 391 students
DCharterWilliam McKinley School 39 - an Exploratory SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 386 students
C-PublicParamount Cottage HomeElementary · Grades K–5 · 381 students
B-CharterWilliam Bell School 60 - a Butler Lab Reggio Emilia SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 381 students
C+PublicBrookside School 54 - an Exploratory SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 366 students
D-PublicJames Russell Lowell School 51 - a Montessori SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 363 students
D-PublicCharity Dye School 27 Center for InquiryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 348 students
C-PublicEleanor Skillen School 34 - a Montessori SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 328 students
D-PublicBenjamin Harrison School 2 Center for InquiryElementary · Grades K–5 · 303 students
BPublicLouis B Russell Jr School 48Elementary · Grades PK–6 · 274 students
D-CharterFredrick Douglas School 19 - an Exploratory SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 259 students
DPublicChristian Park School 82 - an Exploratory SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 251 students
D-PublicGeorge Washington Carver School 87 - a Montessori SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 246 students
C+PublicRalph Waldo Emerson School 58 - an Exploratory SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 241 students
D-PublicWashington Irving Neighborhood School 14Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 230 students
PublicLiberty Grove SchoolsElementary · Grades K–6 · 227 students
CharterBethel Park Elementary | pilotED SchoolsElementary · Grades K–6 · 225 students
DCharterInvent Learning HubElementary · Grades K–8 · 221 students
D-CharterTheodore Potter School 74 - a Dual Language SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 208 students
DPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.