Summary:
There is one high school in this area: James and Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy High School, a charter school at 4352 Mitthoeffer Rd on Indianapolis's far east side that serves grades 9–12 and enrolls about 587 students (roughly 147 per grade) — and it operates as its own single-school district, James and Rosemary Phalen Leadership Academy High School.
On state rankings, the school sits near the bottom: 410th of 415 Indiana high schools in 2025–2026, about the 1st percentile, with a 0-star rating, while its district ranks 371st of 374. Student outcomes trail the state by a wide margin. The graduation rate is 77.7% compared with Indiana's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 23.7% compared with 16.7% statewide — nearly one in four students is chronically absent. Test proficiency is far below state levels: 9.7% of 11th graders met the SAT reading and writing benchmark versus 51.9% statewide. Biology proficiency was 7.86% in 2025–2026, up from 6.1% the prior year and the one clear improvement in the data. SAT Math proficiency was 0% in 2025–2026, down from 2.14%. In practice, most graduates earn a diploma without meeting college-ready benchmarks.
About 68.82% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, so the school serves a high-need population. Resources look comparatively substantial: $16,283 per student (2023–2024) and a 14.3-to-1 student-teacher ratio, a moderate class size. This data set includes no state per-pupil spending figure, so that amount cannot be benchmarked against other schools. Note also that spending is reported for a different year than the outcome data, and the 2025–2026 testing results may still be provisional.
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