Summary:
Tindley Summit Academy is the only elementary school in this area, serving grades K–6 to 312 students at 3698 Dubarry Rd in Indianapolis. Because it is the sole school, it functions as its own district — every Tindley Summit Academy district figure matches the school's numbers exactly, so there is no second campus to compare against. All comparisons below are either the school against the state of Indiana or one year against another.
Performance sits at the bottom of the state. The school has earned 0 stars in each of the last three years and has never left the lowest tenth of Indiana elementary schools, with its state rank percentile hovering between 5 and 9. On the 2025-2026 ILEARN exams, 13.46% of students passed English Language Arts, 16.5% passed Math and 8.7% passed Science — and every single grade-and-subject result fell below the state average, by margins ranging from roughly 21 points (6th grade ELA) to 43 points (5th grade Social Studies, 3.85% against 47.2% statewide). The brightest spots are 6th grade ELA at 20.83% and 3rd grade Math at 22.58%; the weakest are 6th grade Math at 4.35%, 6th grade Science at 0%, and 5th grade Social Studies at 3.85%.
Two years of results show modest momentum: ELA rose 2.88 points and Math 4.96 points, while Science fell 4.63 points. The most glaring concern is attendance — 44.9% of students are chronically absent, about 2.7 times the state rate of 16.7% — alongside a 74.68% free/reduced lunch rate. Resources look comparatively strong, with $13,549 spent per student and a 13.5-to-1 student–teacher ratio, suggesting funding and class size are not the limiting factors. Keep in mind that each grade holds roughly 20–30 students, so a few children can swing a percentage sharply, and year-over-year figures reflect partly different students.
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