Monarca Academy

As a very small high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, Monarca Academy instructs 219 students from grades 6 through 12, overseen by Monarca Academy. Compared to the state average of about 816 students per school, that is 73% below typical.

Monarca Academy sits inside Monarca Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Monarca Academy logs that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 3% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Monarca Academy higher than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Marion County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Monarca Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.6%; actual is 9.4%, a gap of -32.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household earnings sit near $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Monarca Academy is one.

Northwest Middle School - an IB World School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monarca Academy. On composite proficiency, Monarca Academy comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

Monarca Academy operates from an inner-city location. Monarca Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Monarca Academy community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.