Enlace Academy

Enlace Academy, a high-enrollment K-5 school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under Enlace Academy, educates 686 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 57% above the state mean of about 436.

Enlace Academy sits inside Enlace Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Enlace Academy reports that 80% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Enlace Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.7%, the actual is 18.6%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household earnings sit near $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Enlace Academy is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Nearest neighbor: Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Enlace Academy comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 12.9%.

Enlace Academy operates from a downtown location. As a public charter, Enlace Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Enlace Academy has increased 60%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 686 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 21% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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