Excel Center - Michigan Street

Located at 1635 W Michigan St, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Excel Center - Michigan Street is a cozy four-year high school that caters to 385 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Excel Center - Michigan Street. That puts it 53% leaner than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 816 students.

Excel Center - Michigan Street is a school of Excel Center - Michigan Street, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Excel Center - Michigan Street logs that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 10% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Excel Center - Michigan Street has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 38.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Excel Center - Michigan Street qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding 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%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Excel Center - Michigan Street is one.

Indianapolis Metropolitan High Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Excel Center - Michigan Street.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. Excel Center - Michigan Street operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Excel Center - Michigan Street's enrollment has shrank 60% since 2018, when it stood at 953 (now 385). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 15% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 38.5:1 today.

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