Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry

Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry operates as a small primary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of Indianapolis Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 351 students spanning grades K through 5.

Indianapolis Public Schools comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 21,055 students; Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 15% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Marion County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.2%, the actual is 57.6%, a residual of -2.6 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 roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry is one.

Nearest neighbor: Indiana School For The Deaf, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mary Nicholson School 70 Center for Inquiry ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 31.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 13%: 312 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 35% to 15% across the same window.

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