Excel Center - University Heights

Excel Center - University Heights is a small four-year high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, overseen by Excel Center - University Heights. The school educates 432 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 47% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 816 students.

Operationally, Excel Center - University Heights answers to Excel Center - University Heights, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Excel Center - University Heights logs that the largest single group is Asian at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Black, 16% Hispanic, 16% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 4% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 36.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Marion County's rate of about 60%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Marion County) records that median household earnings sit near $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 - University Heights is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is The Hope Academy - Inc., roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Five-year trend. Excel Center - University Heights's enrollment has grew 20% since 2018, when it stood at 359 (now 432). White enrollment moved from 33% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 36.0:1 today.

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