Excel Center - Southeast

Located at 2251 Sloan Avenue, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Excel Center - Southeast is a tiny four-year high school that educates 273 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Excel Center - Southeast. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Excel Center - Southeast sits 67% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Excel Center - Southeast lists that the largest single group is Black at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% White, 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at Excel Center - Southeast qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Marion County's rate of about 60%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $66,346, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Excel Center - Southeast is one campus in the mix.

Victory College Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, Excel Center - Southeast runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On the community side, the feed for Excel Center - Southeast typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.