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New Augusta Public Academy - North
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ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About New Augusta Public Academy - North
Located at 6450 Rodebaugh Rd, in Indianapolis, Indiana, New Augusta Public Academy - North is a reasonably sized intermediate school that educates 751 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by MSD Pike Township. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 594.
New Augusta Public Academy - North is one of 13 schools operated by MSD Pike Township, a district that caters to 10,674 students overall.
In terms of who attends, New Augusta Public Academy - North records that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Augusta Public Academy - North sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.8%; this one delivers 28.0%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Marion County) records that median household income runs about $66,346, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which New Augusta Public Academy - North is one.
The closest other public school is New Augusta Public Academy - South, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Augusta Public Academy - North ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 23.3%.
New Augusta Public Academy - North operates from an urban location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 855 students in 2018 compared to 751 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.
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