Enrollment
391
Elementary
DISTRICT 338 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 180477000873
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School
3651 N Kiel Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46224 · (317) 226-4296 · Marion County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL391 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of Indiana public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
220 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 71% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
20.6%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
24.1%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
20.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School's state test result (20.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School this school | 391 | 56.3% | 20.4% |
| Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School Indianapolis | 472 | 58.1% | 14.7% |
| Nathan Hale Elementary School Whiting | 396 | 66.7% | 39.4% |
| Roosevelt STEAM Academy Elkhart | 531 | 56.5% | 23.7% |
| Washington Irving Elementary Sch Hammond | 754 | 56.4% | 12.5% |
| Jonathan Jennings School 109 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | 275 | 57.5% | 13.2% |
Matched among Indiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #834 of 983 | #79 of 140 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #827 of 986 | #78 of 142 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #832 of 986 | #79 of 142 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 391 | #627 of 1,079 | #102 of 157 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #99 of 991 | #23 of 142 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.1% | #651 of 996 | #143 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.3% | #454 of 1,058 | #108 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.5% | #181 of 353 | #19 of 35 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
391
+43 (+12%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 456
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 9.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 391 | 32 | 12.2:1 | 56% (220) |
| 2023-24 | 396 | 31 | 12.8:1 | 63% (248) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 28.5 | 12.6:1 | 79% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 348 | 36 | 9.7:1 | 66% (229) |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 23 | 15.5:1 | 89% (319) |
| 2015-16 | 415 | 30 | 13.8:1 | 88% (366) |
| 2010-11 | 542 | 37 | 14.7:1 | 95% (516) |
| 2000-01 | 501 | 30 | 16.7:1 | 73% (365) |
| 1990-91 | 456 | 30 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School.
About Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It teaches 391 students in pre-K through 5.
Indianapolis Public Schools operates 49 schools. Combined enrollment is 21,055 students.
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School is 83% Hispanic by enrollment. Next come 12% Black and 3% White. That compares with about 14% Hispanic among all Marion County residents. The diversity index for Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School is 30%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School comes to 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.2:1. The school's 12.2:1 compares with an average of 15.5:1 for elementary schools in Indiana. On the income side, 56% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School lands at D, ahead of 8% of Indiana public elementary schools.
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School is a bottom-10% school in Indiana on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 20.4% against a predicted 35.7%.
The school's county is Marion County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $66,346 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. There are 274 public schools in the county, enrolling about 161,456, Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School among them.
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School is about 0.1 miles from Enlace Academy, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal data place Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 12% rise, from 348 to 391. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 9.7:1 to 12.2:1.
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Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
975,809
Census ACS
Median income
$66,346
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
274
161,456 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School?
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School enrolls approximately 391 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School serve?
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School?
At Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 83% Hispanic, 12% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School in?
Meredith Nicholson School 96 - an Exploratory School is part of Indianapolis Public Schools.
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