Summary:
Avondale Meadows Academy is the only school in this area — a K–4 elementary school at 3980 Meadows Dr in Indianapolis serving 332 students — and it also operates as its own district, Avondale Meadows Academy, so there are no nearby peer schools to compare against, only the state and the school's own past years.
Academically, the school sits at the very bottom of Indiana's distribution. On 2025–26 ILEARN tests, 8.82% of third graders and 10.81% of fourth graders were proficient in ELA, 14.71% and 16.22% in math, and 13.51% of fourth graders in science. State rates are 40.8%, 42.2%, 51.9%, 52.0% and 43.8%, leaving gaps of about 30 to 37 percentage points in every subject and grade. The school ranked 985th of 1,015 Indiana schools (3rd percentile) with 0 stars — its third consecutive 0-star year — and the district ranked 369th of 374 (1st percentile). The two-year trend is mixed: ELA fell from 14.55% to 9.52%, while math rose from 12.73% to 15.24% and science more than doubled from 6% to 13.51%.
Context explains a great deal. Chronic absenteeism was 32.0%, nearly 1.9 times the state's 16.7%, meaning roughly one in three students misses substantial instructional time, and 93.67% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Resources, by contrast, look comparatively strong: a 13.2:1 student–teacher ratio and $14,380 in per-student spending in 2023–24. For parents, the picture is a small, high-need school with well-resourced classrooms but bottom-percentile results across all subjects, where attendance is likely the single highest-leverage factor a family can influence, and where recent gains in math and science are the clearest encouraging signal.
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