Blue Academy

Located at 5650 Mann Rd, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Blue Academy is a roomy elementary campus that educates 687 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within MSD Decatur Township. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Blue Academy sits 58% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in MSD Decatur Township (6,485 students total), Blue Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Blue Academy lists that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 39% White, 10% Hispanic, 5% 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 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at Blue Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Blue Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate 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%. Blue Academy is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Gold Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Blue Academy at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 31.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Blue Academy's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 687). Black enrollment moved from 16% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Blue Academy typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.