Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy

Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy, a medium-sized middle-grades school in Indianapolis, Indiana, overseen by Perry Township Schools, caters to 617 students, covering grade 6.

Perry Township Schools runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 16,243 students. Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy logs that 37% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% White, 16% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 4% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of +9.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Marion County shows median household earnings sit near $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Perry Meridian Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy. On composite proficiency, Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Perry Meridian 6th Grade Academy has contracted 4%, going from 646 students in 2018 to 617 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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