Summary:
Herron-Riverside High School is the only school in this area — a single-school district in Indianapolis, Indiana serving grades 9–12 with 388 students — so there are no peer schools here to compare against. Because Herron-Riverside High School is its own district, district-level figures are identical to school-level figures; every statistic below describes the same building.
The resource profile is mostly favorable: a 6.1:1 student-teacher ratio and $14,793 in per-student spending for 2023–2024, with 50.77% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025. Outcomes, though, generally trail Indiana benchmarks. The graduation rate is 83.8%, below the state's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism of 29.4% is roughly 1.8 times the state rate of 16.7% — the most striking relative weakness in the data, even though the numbers alone cannot show cause and effect with graduation or proficiency.
Test scores trail the state in every comparison that has a state benchmark: 2025–2026 SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing (38.46 vs. 51.9) and SAT Mathematics (20 vs. 25.6), plus 2024–2025 Biology (13.51 vs. 45.6), SAT EBRW (50 vs. 54.5), and SAT Math (16.35 vs. 25.4). Year over year, Biology rose sharply to 38.6 (no state comparison is provided for that year) and SAT Math improved modestly to 20, while SAT EBRW fell to 38.46 as the state dipped only slightly. The rating reflects that mixed picture: after a 3-star, 53rd-percentile year in 2023–2024, the school dropped to the 35th percentile in 2024–2025 and sits at the 39th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026.
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