Circle City Preparatory Middle School

Circle City Preparatory Middle School is a minimally staffed junior high in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of Circle City Prep Charter School. The school hosts 97 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 84% below the state mean of about 594.

Circle City Prep Charter School comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 418 students; Circle City Preparatory Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Circle City Preparatory Middle School logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 5% White. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Circle City Preparatory Middle School records 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Circle City Preparatory Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Marion County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Circle City Preparatory Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 9.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.4%.

Around the school, Marion County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Circle City Preparatory Middle School is one.

Circle City Preparatory Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Circle City Preparatory Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Circle City Preparatory Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 12.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. Circle City Preparatory Middle School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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