Summary:
The area around KIPP Indy College Prep Middle contains a single middle school: KIPP Indy College Prep Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 372 students at 1740 E 30th St, Indianapolis, IN 46218. Because there are no peer schools in this list, the useful comparisons are between this school and the state of Indiana, and between the school's own results across years and grade levels. The district listed for the school is KIPP Indy College Prep Middle, which contains only this one school, so district and school figures are identical. Nearly all students — 98.92% — receive free or reduced lunch, per-student spending was $15,077 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio was 19.5 in 2024–2025.
Academically, the school is improving but is still far below the state. All-grades math proficiency rose from 10.71% to 17.89%, and ELA rose from 14.13% to 18.65%. Eighth-grade math, at 22.76%, is the highest math result and the closest to the state's 34.2%, a gap of 11.44 percentage points. Every other tested subject and grade remains far behind: ELA is about 20 to 27 points below the state in each grade, and 6th-grade science is the clearest weakness at 8.26% versus a state rate of 41.2%, a gap of 32.94 percentage points. Science was nearly flat year over year, moving only from 8.00% to 8.26%.
Attendance is a major barrier. In 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism was 36.1% at both the school and district level, compared with 16.7% statewide — more than double the state rate. The school's ranking is still in the bottom quartile, but the trend is upward: percentile rose from 5 to 9 to 17, and stars moved from 0 to 0 to 1 across the last three school years. The district rank is 326 of 374, with a percentile of 13 and 1 star. The most important takeaways for parents are that improvement is real but starting from a very low level, and the biggest opportunities are attendance, science instruction, and continued math and ELA growth.
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