William Penn Middle School - a STEM School

William Penn Middle School - a STEM School operates as a close-knit intermediate school in Indianapolis, Indiana, one of the schools within Indianapolis Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 367 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 38% below the state mean of about 594.

William Penn Middle School - a STEM School is one of 49 schools operated by Indianapolis Public Schools, a district that serves 21,055 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, William Penn Middle School - a STEM School logs that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% White, 23% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, William Penn Middle School - a STEM School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.3%; this one comes in at 9.1%, -20.2 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,346, 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 William Penn Middle School - a STEM School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Daniel Webster School 46 - an Exploratory School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), William Penn Middle School - a STEM School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 14.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 44%: 658 students in 2018 compared to 367 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 12% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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