Summary:
Tindley Summit Academy is the only school in this area — a K–6 elementary school at 3698 Dubarry Rd in Indianapolis (46226) that also operates as its own single-school district, Tindley Summit Academy. Enrollment is 312 students, and because school and district figures are identical here, the only meaningful benchmark for families is the state of Indiana. About 74.68% of students are economically disadvantaged, and the student/teacher ratio of 13.5 works out to roughly 23 teachers for 312 students, implying small classes.
Academically, the school performs well below the state. It ranks 950th of 1,015 Indiana schools (6th percentile) in 2025-26, after 955th of 1,005 the year before, with 0 stars in each of the last three years and a district rank of 360th of 374. Every one of the 11 grade-level subject results in 2025-26 falls below the state average, with gaps from about 20 to about 43 points. The strongest results are 6th-grade ELA (20.83%), 3rd-grade math (22.58%), and 4th-grade science (17.39%). The weakest are 6th-grade science (0%), 5th-grade social studies (3.85%), and 6th-grade math (4.35%). Encouragingly, all-grades ELA rose from 10.58% to 13.46% and math from 11.54% to 16.5% year over year, while science slipped from 13.33% to 8.7%.
The most striking non-academic finding is chronic absenteeism of 44.9% in 2024-25 — nearly 3× the state rate of 16.7%, meaning roughly 1 in 2 students missed enough school to be classified chronically absent. That is the largest proportional gap in the data. Per-student spending was $13,549 in 2023-24, and no state comparison is available, so it is not clear whether resources are a constraint. Small grade-level cohorts also mean a single student can shift a rate by about 4 points, so individual-grade swings should be read cautiously; the all-grades gains in ELA and math are more reliable signals of progress.
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