Summary:
Purdue Polytechnic High School North is the single public high school serving grades 9–12 in its area of Indianapolis, Indiana, and it also makes up the entire Purdue Polytechnic High School North district, with 229 students enrolled. Because there is only one school here, district-level results and school-level results are the same, so any district honor reflects this one campus rather than a larger system.
The school's clearest strength is its upward trajectory. It rose from 179th of 432 ranked Indiana high schools in 2023–2024 to 106th of 429 in 2024–2025 and 50th of 415 in 2025–2026 — about the top 12% of ranked high schools, up from the 59th percentile to the 88th. At the district level it ranks 20th of 374 districts. SAT Math is a standout: in 2025–2026, 47.62% of 11th graders were proficient, compared with 25.6% statewide, a gap of +22.02 percentage points (up from +7.39 the prior year). SAT Reading and Writing was 55.56%, above the state's 51.9%, though its advantage narrowed from +7.8 points the year before. Graduation rate, at 90.0%, is essentially at Indiana's 89.7%.
Two areas need attention. Chronic absenteeism was 35.1%, more than double the state rate of 16.7%. Biology proficiency was the weakest subject: 31.91% in 2024–2025 versus the state's 45.6%, then 18.18% in 2025–2026 with no state comparison provided. Class sizes are small, with a 12.7 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $12,103 in 2023–2024, and 49.78% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch. With only 229 students, year-to-year percentage swings can reflect a handful of students, so families should weigh the multi-year trend alongside any single year's result.
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