Speedway Junior High School

Set in Speedway, Indiana, Speedway Junior High School is a compact junior high, operated by School Town of Speedway. It works with 264 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Speedway Junior High School sits 56% below that benchmark.

School Town of Speedway comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,776 students; Speedway Junior High School is among them.

On demographics, Speedway Junior High School shows that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Black, 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, Speedway Junior High School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Speedway Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Speedway Junior High School ranks in the top 10% of Indiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.2%; Speedway Junior High School posts 51.4%, +21.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Marion County shows median household earnings sit near $66,346, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Speedway Junior High School is one of 274 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 161,456 students).

Carl G Fisher Elementary School 1 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Speedway Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Speedway Junior High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Speedway Junior High School has ticked down 3%, going from 272 students in 2018 to 264 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 14% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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