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Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School
As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Indianapolis, Indiana, Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School serves 506 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Indianapolis Public Schools.
Within Indianapolis Public Schools, which oversees 49 schools and 21,055 students, Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 28% Black, 20% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages about 15.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Marion County's rate of about 60%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of -13.1 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,346 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School is one.
Nearest neighbor: ACE Preparatory Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School. On composite proficiency, Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rousseau McClellan School 91 - a Montessori School has ticked down 5%, going from 532 students in 2018 to 506 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
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