Southport High School

Southport High School, a large four-year high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within Perry Township Schools, educates 2,431 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 198% above the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 816 students.

Southport High School is one of 21 schools operated by Perry Township Schools, a district that enrolls 16,243 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Southport High School logs that the most-represented group is White (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 27% Hispanic, 21% Asian, 16% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 134 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 71% 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.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Marion County) shows that median household earnings sit near $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 Southport High School is one.

Homecroft Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southport High School has ticked up 9%, going from 2,239 students in 2018 to 2,431 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 52% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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