Summary:
MSD Decatur Township has a single middle school in this data set: Decatur Middle School, located at 5108 S High School Rd in Indianapolis. It serves grades 7–8 and enrolls 1,000 students. The district, MSD Decatur Township, ranks 269 of 374 Indiana districts (28th percentile, 1 star). Because this is the only middle school in the district, there is no in-district alternative to compare it against; the most meaningful benchmarks are state grade-level results.
Academically, the profile is mixed. The standout result is Biology End-of-Course proficiency: 91.43% in 2025–2026 and 88.68% in 2024–2025, far above the district (30.32% and 27.09%) and the state (45.6%). Since Biology EOC is typically a high-school-level exam, that figure likely reflects a small or selective group of test-takers rather than the full 7th–8th grade population. Core ILEARN results are much weaker: 25.13% proficient in ELA and 16.41% in math in 2025–2026, up from 22.06% and 12.89% the year before. Eighth grade trails 7th grade in both subjects, and the school falls below the state in every reported 7th- and 8th-grade ELA and math category. School rank improved modestly, from 391 of 491 (20th percentile) to 371 of 486 (24th percentile), but remains in the bottom quartile.
Chronic absenteeism is 24.3%, essentially matching the district's 24.4% but well above the state's 16.7%, pointing to a district-wide attendance issue that likely weighs on achievement. About 59.7% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $11,760, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.6. The bottom line: recent gains in ELA, math, Biology EOC, and overall rank are encouraging, but math proficiency is still very low and the school remains in the bottom quartile of Indiana schools.
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