Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School

Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School, a medium-sized K-5 school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under Indianapolis Public Schools, instructs 472 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Indianapolis Public Schools runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 21,055 students. Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% Black, 5% White, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the resource side, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.5%; this one comes in at 14.7%, -19.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Marion County) logs 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%. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School is one campus in the mix.

IN Math & Science Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School. On composite proficiency, Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School's enrollment has ticked down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 643 (now 472). Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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