Rooted School Indianapolis

Rooted School Indianapolis operates as a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in Indianapolis, Indiana, part of Rooted School Indianapolis. Current enrollment sits at 150 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Rooted School Indianapolis sits 82% below that benchmark.

Rooted School Indianapolis is a school of Rooted School Indianapolis, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Rooted School Indianapolis records that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Marion County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, Rooted School Indianapolis tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Marion County) shows that 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. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which Rooted School Indianapolis is one.

The closest other public school is Sankofa School of Success at Arlington Woods School 99, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rooted School Indianapolis at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 10.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. Rooted School Indianapolis is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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