Summary:
ZIP code 46205 in Indianapolis is home to three high schools serving roughly 1,090 students across grades 7–12: Excel Center - Meadows (grades 9–12, 396 students), Excel Center - Michigan Street (grades 9–12, 385 students) and Charles A Tindley Accelerated School (grades 7–12, 309 students). Enrollment splits fairly evenly — Meadows 36.3%, Michigan Street 35.3%, Tindley 28.3% — and each school operates as its own single-school district, since district values match school values for every reported metric.
Charles A Tindley Accelerated School is the relative standout. Its 82.8% graduation rate is far above Meadows (11.8%) and Michigan Street (9.0%), though still under the state's 89.7%. Tindley also posts the lowest chronic absenteeism (29.7%, versus 94.9% at Michigan Street and 16.7% statewide), the lowest student-teacher ratio (12.8, compared with 36 and 38.5), and the highest per-student spending at $19,128 — about 4.8 times Michigan Street's $3,967. Even so, Tindley sits in the bottom fifth of ranked schools (337 of 374, 10th percentile, 1 star), and it is the only one of the three with reported school-level test scores; those trail the state in every comparable area, by 16.17 points in 7th-grade ELA and 28.48 points in 8th-grade ELA.
Both Excel Centers face steep challenges. Michigan Street has the lowest graduation rate in the group (9.0%) and near-universal chronic absenteeism (94.9%), with rank history in the 1st–8th percentile and 0 stars. Meadows has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (81.31%) and a 36:1 student-teacher ratio. Test scores for both Excel Centers are suppressed or unknown, and Meadows also lacks chronic absenteeism and spending figures, so these comparisons should be treated as directional rather than definitive.
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