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Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 27% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School
Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Indianapolis, Indiana, operated by Indianapolis Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 416 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Indianapolis Public Schools runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 21,055 students. Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 28% White, 18% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.2%; actual is 12.5%, a gap of -14.7 points.
Across the wider county, Marion County reports that median household income runs about $66,346, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).
William Penn Middle School - a STEM School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 18.3%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Five-year trend. Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 416). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 46% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.
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