Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry

Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry is an elementary campus of intimate scale in Muncie, Indiana, one of the schools within Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry, teacheing 201 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 54% below typical.

Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry is a school of Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry lists that White students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Black, 13% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Delaware County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 8.0%; this one delivers 10.3%.

Across the wider county, Delaware County reports that median household income runs about $58,127, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Delaware County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,683 students), of which Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grissom Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Inspire Academy - A Sch of Inquiry has rose 3%, going from 196 students in 2018 to 201 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 63% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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