Summary:
Purdue Polytechnic High School Ind is the only school in this area — a public high school serving grades 9–12 in Indianapolis with roughly 600 students. Because it is also its own district (Purdue Polytechnic High School Ind), there are no other schools nearby to compare it against, and every district-level number simply mirrors the school's own results.
Academically, the school's record is mixed and uneven. It earned a 3-star rating at the 50th percentile in 2024–2025, but slipped to 1 star at the 23rd percentile in 2025–2026 — close to where it stood in 2023–2024, when it was at the 28th percentile with 1 star. The current rank is 300 out of 374, or the 20th percentile. The graduation rate of 87.5% is only slightly below Indiana's 89.7%. The biggest concern is chronic absenteeism: at 39.1%, it is more than double the state rate of 16.7%, which likely plays a large role in the school's academic struggles.
Test scores fell sharply from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing dropped from 52.35% to 36.72%, moving from near the state average to 15.18 points below it. SAT Math declined from 19.46% to 13.28%, roughly half the state's 25.6%. Biology fell from 38.26% to 21.19%, and no state figure is reported for that year, so no direct state comparison is possible. Math remains the weakest subject. In context, 64.17% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, the school spends $18,378 per student, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.7 — about 38 teachers for 600 students.
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