Allegiant Preparatory Academy

Set in Indianapolis, Indiana, Allegiant Preparatory Academy is a micro-enrollment K-5 school, one of the schools within Allegiant Preparatory Academy. It serves 166 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 62% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Allegiant Preparatory Academy is a school of Allegiant Preparatory Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Allegiant Preparatory Academy lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Allegiant Preparatory Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 21.9%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Marion County shows median household income runs about $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Allegiant Preparatory Academy is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Nearest neighbor: Matchbook Learning, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Allegiant Preparatory Academy. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Allegiant Preparatory Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 13.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Allegiant Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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