Avondale Meadows Middle School

Set in Indianapolis, Indiana, Avondale Meadows Middle School is a tiny middle-grades school, one of the schools within Avondale Meadows Middle School. It enrolls 192 students across grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 68% below the state mean of about 594.

Avondale Meadows Middle School is the operating authority for Avondale Meadows Middle School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Avondale Meadows Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%); the rest breaks down as 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Avondale Meadows Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% 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 north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Avondale Meadows Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 8.1%, the actual is 13.9%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Marion County shows median household earnings sit near $66,346, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Avondale Meadows Middle School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

The closest other public school is Avondale Meadows Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Avondale Meadows Middle School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 17.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Avondale Meadows Middle School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Avondale Meadows Middle School's enrollment has rose 111% since 2018, when it stood at 91 (now 192). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 96% to 83%. Class-load math has widened: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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