BELIEVE Circle City High School

BELIEVE Circle City High School operates as a micro-enrollment senior high in Indianapolis, Indiana, operated by BELIEVE Circle City High School. Current enrollment sits at 269 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 67% smaller than the state mean of about 816.

BELIEVE Circle City High School is the operating authority for BELIEVE Circle City High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BELIEVE Circle City High School records that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 42% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, BELIEVE Circle City High School shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 1% of students at BELIEVE Circle City High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Marion County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. BELIEVE Circle City High School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

The closest other public school is George Washington Carver School 87 - a Montessori School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a city-core site. BELIEVE Circle City High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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