PLA@Promise Prep

As a rural-scale elementary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, PLA@Promise Prep hosts 144 students from grades K through 5, run under Promise Prep. Compared to the state average of about 436 students per school, that is 67% smaller than typical.

Operationally, PLA@Promise Prep answers to Promise Prep, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PLA@Promise Prep logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 42% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

In terms of school funding signals, PLA@Promise Prep lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting PLA@Promise Prep tighter than the state norm the norm. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PLA@Promise Prep sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 29.4%; actual is 6.3%, a gap of -23.1 points.

In the area at large, Marion County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which PLA@Promise Prep is one.

The closest other public school is Charles Warren Fairbanks School 105 - an Exploratory School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PLA@Promise Prep ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 12.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. PLA@Promise Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.