SE Neighborhood School of Excellence

The SE Neighborhood School of Excellence area contains exactly one school: SE Neighborhood School of Excellence, located at 1601 S Barth Ave in Indianapolis. It is classified as an Elementary school but serves grades K–8 with 588 students, and it is also its own district, SE Neighborhood School of Excellence. Because only one school sits in this area, there is no cross-school comparison to make; the most useful comparisons are within the school by grade and subject, and against state averages.

Academically, Math is the strongest subject: 25.00% of all grades were proficient in 2025–2026, up from 19.21% the year before, and Math outperformed ELA by 8.04 percentage points at the all-grade level. Grade 8 stands out, with 29.82% in ELA — the highest ELA grade and the only grade where ELA exceeds Math — and 26.32% in Math, only 7.88 points below state. Grade 5 Math (28.26%) is also above the school's all-grade Math average. ELA is the weaker core subject at 16.96% all grades, slightly down from 18.42%. Grade 4 ELA is the weakest result at 8.93% versus 42.2% state, a 33.27-point gap, with Grade 7 (11.11%) and Grade 3 (12.07%) also far below state. Science and 5th-grade Social Studies improved year over year (13.33% to 16.53%, and 23.88% to 26.67%) but remain roughly 20–26 points below state where comparisons are available.

Context matters: chronic absenteeism is 34.6%, more than double the 16.7% state rate, and 88.1% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Per-student spending is $15,255 and the student-teacher ratio is 10.1 — favorable resource indicators that have not yet translated into proficiency outcomes in this snapshot. The school holds 1 star and its district ranks 314 of 374 (16th percentile), while school rank has stayed in the bottom 10–16th percentile across the last three years.