James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School

James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School operates as a micro-enrollment elementary campus in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of Indianapolis Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 173 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 436.

Indianapolis Public Schools runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 21,055 students. James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School reports that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Black, 23% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.3%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of +3.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Marion County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 12.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 57%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 173 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 48% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 today.

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