Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School

As an average-sized K-5 school in Indianapolis, Indiana, Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School serves 398 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Indianapolis Public Schools.

Indianapolis Public Schools runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 21,055 students. Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.0%; this one comes in at 9.7%, -22.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Marion County put 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. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School is one campus in the mix.

PLA@Promise Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 12.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 402 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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