Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center

Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center operates as a large middle-grades school in Indianapolis, Indiana, overseen by MSD Wayne Township. Current enrollment sits at 1,143 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 92% above typical.

Across the 17 schools in MSD Wayne Township (16,094 students total), Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center logs that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% 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, Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center records 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 16.3%, a residual of -12.2 points.

Across the wider county, 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 the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center is one.

The closest other public school is Ben Davis Ninth Grade Center, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.9%.

Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 1,242 students in 2018 compared to 1,143 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 25% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.