James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School

James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School is a tight-knit intermediate school in Indianapolis, Indiana, operated by James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School. The school teaches 296 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 50% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School is the operating authority for James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School shows that Black students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, On paper, James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.7%, the actual is 13.8%, a residual of -9.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School is one.

Phalen Virtual Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 11.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at James & Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy Middle School has grew 149%, going from 119 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 15% to 32%. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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