Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School

Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School is a K-5 school of cozy scale in Indianapolis, Indiana, overseen by Indianapolis Public Schools, enrolling 275 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School is one of 49 schools operated by Indianapolis Public Schools, a district that teaches 21,055 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 27% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.9%; Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School posts 13.2%, -21.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Marion County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School is one.

Enlace Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 16.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 282 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 53% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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