SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence

SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Indianapolis, Indiana, operated by SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence, serveing 588 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 35% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence is a school of SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence records that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 19% Black, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.2%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Marion County runs 274 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students), of which SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence is one.

James A. Garfield School 31 - a STEM School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence. On composite proficiency, SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.1%.

SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence operates from a downtown location. SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SE Neighborhood Sch of Excellence has remained close to its prior level, going from 591 students in 2018 to 588 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 50% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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