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CHARTER vs DISTRICT · INDIANA

Indiana charter schools, ranked

Every Indiana charter with a BeatsExpectations score, best to worst, against what its student demographics predict.

Charters ranked
60
with a BeatsExpectations score
Charter sector vs district
-5.7 pp
charters trail on average
Top charter
+23.5 pp
IN Math & Science Academy
IN CHARTER SCHOOLS RANKED BY BEATSEXPECTATIONS
SchoolCity% FRL% ProficientBeats (pp) ↓
IN Math & Science AcademyIndianapolis72.0%48.0%23.5
Paramount Cottage HomeIndianapolis68.0%49.1%21.7
Paramount BrooksideIndianapolis70.8%44.2%18.8
Aspire Charter AcademyGary96.1%23.6%16
Victory College PrepIndianapolis84.1%27.4%11.4
ACE Preparatory AcademyIndianapolis84.7%25.9%10.3
Circle City Preparatory Middle SchoolIndianapolis93.8%18.4%9.2
Circle City Preparatory Elementary SchoolIndianapolis94.7%16.3%7.8
Mays Community AcademyMays92.1%18.1%7.7
Gary Lighthouse Charter SchoolGary98.9%12.6%7
KIPP Indy College Prep MiddleIndianapolis98.9%11.5%6
Avondale Meadows Middle SchoolIndianapolis95.3%13.9%5.8
East Chicago LighthouseEast Chicago99.0%11.3%5.8
Seven Oaks Classical SchoolEllettsville20.1%66.9%5.6
KIPP Indy Unite ElementaryIndianapolis98.5%11.1%5.3
SE Neighborhood Sch of ExcellenceIndianapolis88.1%18.4%5.2
Liberty Grove SchoolsIndianapolis100%9.1%4.3
The Bloomington Project SchoolBloomington34.1%55.4%4
Hammond Academy of Science & TechHammond68.0%30.6%3.1
Emma Donnan Elementary and MiddleIndianapolis81.4%21.0%3.1
Joshua AcademyEvansville76.0%24.8%3
Paramount School of Excellence LafayetteLafayette75.1%25.2%2.9
Avondale Meadows AcademyIndianapolis93.7%11.7%2.5
Inspire Academy - A Sch of InquiryMuncie95.5%10.3%2.4
Vision AcademyIndianapolis94.4%10.1%1.4
Enlace AcademyIndianapolis81.8%18.6%1
Paramount EnglewoodIndianapolis64.1%30.8%0.6
Global Preparatory AcademyIndianapolis82.1%18.0%0.5
Matchbook LearningIndianapolis96.3%7.6%0.2
Discovery Charter SchoolPorter39.7%47.6%0.2
Invent Learning HubIndianapolis94.1%8.5%-0.4
Herron Preparatory AcademyIndianapolis36.4%49.1%-0.7
Timothy L Johnson AcademyFort Wayne82.7%15.5%-1.6
Paramount School of Excellence South BendSouth Bend75.4%20.2%-2
East Chicago Urban Enterprise AcademyEast Chicago63.7%28.3%-2.1
Tindley Genesis AcademyIndianapolis87.2%11.3%-2.5
Christel House Academy SouthIndianapolis80.3%15.5%-3.2
Otwell Miller AcademyOtwell61.7%28.4%-3.5
Success Academy Primary SchoolSouth Bend75.6%18.2%-3.8
PLA at George H Fisher School 93Indianapolis74.3%18.9%-4.1
Springville Community AcademySpringville39.1%43.6%-4.2
21st Century Charter Sch of GaryGary77.4%16.2%-4.6
Allegiant Preparatory AcademyIndianapolis68.7%21.9%-5.1
Louis B Russell Jr School 48Indianapolis79.2%14.2%-5.4
Lawrence County Independent SchoolsBedford63.4%24.2%-6.5
Steel City AcademyGary78.7%13.2%-6.7
Rooted School IndianapolisIndianapolis74.0%15.4%-7.7
Andrew J Brown AcademyIndianapolis71.3%17.2%-8
Higher Institute of Arts & TechMerrillville79.5%11.1%-8.2
Smith Academy for ExcellenceFort Wayne76.6%13.1%-8.3
Rock Creek Community AcademySellersburg43.9%35.9%-8.6
Phalen Leadership Academy - IN IncIndianapolis73.7%14.2%-9.2
James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle SchoolIndianapolis73.3%13.8%-9.9
Phalen at Francis Scott Key 103Indianapolis74.0%11.7%-11.4
Renaissance Academy Charter SchoolLaPorte27.5%44.5%-11.6
Dugger Union Community School CorpDugger61.9%19.7%-12
IN Math & Science Academy - NorthIndianapolis68.2%14.9%-12.4
Tindley Summit AcademyIndianapolis74.7%9.9%-12.9
Timothy L. Johnson Academy MiddleFort Wayne78.0%6.3%-14
Premier Arts AcademyElkhart58.4%20.2%-14
60 of 60 rows · Every scored charter in IN (top 60 by residual), best to worst. "Beats" is the percentage-point gap between a school's actual proficiency and what the per-state regression predicts from its FRL share. Sort ascending to see the state's weakest charters. Worst charter shown: Premier Arts Academy (-14.0 pp).↓ Download charter-vs-district-by-state-in.csv

What "Beats" means here

Ranking charter schools by raw proficiency mostly ranks them by the families they enroll. To compare a charter to the district schools it actually competes with, we use BeatsExpectations: a per-state regression of school proficiency on free-and-reduced-lunch share. It predicts the proficiency a school "should" post given its poverty profile, and the residual, in percentage points, is how far above or below that line the school actually lands. A charter at +15 is beating its demographics; one at -15 is trailing them. The table above ranks every scored Indiana charter on that residual. Sort ascending to see the weakest performers.

How Indiana charters compare to district schools

The headline stat is the charter sector's average residual minus the district sector's. A positive number means Indiana charters, on average, beat their demographics by more than the state's district schools do; a negative number means they trail. The national picture is genuinely mixed: charters beat district schools handily in some states (New York is the clearest case) and trail them badly in others (Ohio and Pennsylvania, where troubled cyber-charter sectors drag the average down). See the national report for every state side by side.

Limits

BeatsExpectations controls for poverty, but not for everything that separates charters from district schools: charters can have application and lottery processes, different special-education and English-learner shares, and different mid-year attrition. A high residual is strong evidence a school is doing something right, but it is not proof the same students would have done worse down the street. Treat this as the fairest single comparison available from public data, not a settled verdict on school choice.

Source data

NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 (charter flag, FRL share, enrollment) and Indiana's native state assessment for the most recent available year. The BeatsExpectations regression is recomputed after every data refresh.

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allk12 (2026). "Indiana charter schools, ranked by BeatsExpectations." Retrieved from https://allk12.com/reports/charter-vs-district/indiana
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DOWNLOAD THE DATA
↓ charter-vs-district-by-state-in.csv
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