Summary:
Zip code 46032 is home to three high schools serving grades 6-12, including Carmel High School, a large public high school, and two charter schools: Indiana Agriculture and Technology and Options Westfield. While all three schools report the same graduation and chronic absenteeism rates, there are significant differences in their academic performance and resource allocation.
Carmel High School, part of the Carmel Clay Schools district, is a high-achieving institution that consistently ranks among the top high schools in Indiana. It demonstrates strong academic performance, with significantly higher test score proficiencies, particularly in SAT Mathematics, compared to the other schools in the zip code. Despite serving a larger student body and having a higher percentage of students on free or reduced lunch, Carmel High School achieves excellent results with a spending per student of $11,447 and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8.
In contrast, the charter schools, Indiana Agriculture and Technology (part of Indiana Agriculture and Technology) and Options Westfield (part of Options Charter Schools), appear to be struggling academically. They rank in the bottom 10% statewide and show substantially lower test score proficiencies, especially in mathematics. Notably, Options Westfield has the highest spending per student at $14,340 but does not reflect this in its academic outcomes. Indiana Agriculture and Technology has the lowest spending per student and also exhibits low academic performance, with an unusually high student-teacher ratio of 93.2.
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