Summary:
There is one school in this area: Phalen at Francis Scott Key 103, an elementary school in Indianapolis serving grades PK–6 with 689 students, and it makes up the entire Phalen Leadership Academy at Francis Scott Key School 103 district — so school and district results are identical. The school serves a high-poverty population, with 74.02% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. It has a 14:1 student-teacher ratio and spends $13,074 per student. Chronic absenteeism is 34.9%, more than double the state rate of 16.7%, meaning roughly 1 in 3 students is chronically absent.
Academically, every reported grade-level subject score falls below the state average, with most gaps between 27 and 34 percentage points. In 2025–2026, 5th-grade Math was the closest to state at 30.38% proficient versus the state's 42%, and it was the strongest math result by grade. 6th-grade Math drops to 11.34%. Across all grades, Math is the highest subject at 21.43% proficient, ahead of ELA at 10.54% and Science at 9.71%. The largest gaps are in 3rd-grade ELA (7.29% vs. 40.8%) and 4th-grade Science (10.26% vs. 43.8%). 5th-grade Social Studies improved the most year over year, rising from 4.76% to 16.46%, though it remains 30.74 points below the state average.
The school ranks 355 of 374 districts with 0 stars, and in school-level rankings it sits at 932 of 1,015 for 2025–2026 with 0 stars. Its rank has improved slightly, from 955 of 1,011 in 2023–2024, and its percentile moved from 6 to 8, but it remains among the lowest-ranked elementary schools in Indiana. All-grade Math and Science each improved by roughly 2.4 points year over year, while ELA improved only 0.45 points. Overall, this is a high-poverty, high-absenteeism school with small recent academic gains but proficiency still far below state averages.
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