Northwest Middle School - an IB World School

Northwest Middle School - an IB World School is a middle-grades school of mid-sized scale in Indianapolis, Indiana, run under Indianapolis Public Schools, educateing 623 students in grades 6 through 8.

Indianapolis Public Schools runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 21,055 students. Northwest Middle School - an IB World School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Northwest Middle School - an IB World School logs that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Northwest Middle School - an IB World School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at Northwest Middle School - an IB World School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Northwest Middle School - an IB World School is in the bottom 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.4%; Northwest Middle School - an IB World School posts 5.7%, -24.8 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Marion County put the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), Northwest Middle School - an IB World School is one campus in the mix.

Monarca Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Northwest Middle School - an IB World School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 183%: 220 students in 2018 compared to 623 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 60% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 6.3:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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