Avondale Meadows Academy

Avondale Meadows Academy is one of the small elementary-level communitys in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under Avondale Meadows Academy, with 332 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 24% smaller than typical.

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

In terms of who attends, Avondale Meadows Academy logs that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Avondale Meadows Academy has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Marion County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, Avondale Meadows Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 9.3%, the actual is 11.7%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Avondale Meadows Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Avondale Meadows Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Avondale Meadows Academy ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 17.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. As a public charter, Avondale Meadows Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 332 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 95% to 86%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.