Summary:
ZIP code 46217 in Indianapolis, Indiana contains just one high school — Perry Meridian High School — which serves grades 9–12, enrolls 2,455 students, and belongs to Perry Township Schools. The data covers three years of rank history (2023–2024 through 2025–2026), plus 2024–2025 graduation and absenteeism rates, test proficiency for 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, free/reduced lunch percentage, per-student spending, and student-teacher ratio. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP code, the most useful comparisons are over time and against district and state benchmarks.
Perry Meridian has earned 3 stars in each of the three years of rank history, while its district is rated 2 stars. Its 2025–2026 rank is 192 of 415, the 54th percentile, compared with the district's 244 of 374, the 35th percentile — though its own percentile slipped from 60th the prior year. The school beats the district in all six available test-score comparisons: 2025–2026 Biology 51.02% vs. 40.23%, SAT ERW 47.2% vs. 43.2%, and SAT Math 17.49% vs. 16.87%; 2024–2025 Biology 43.13% vs. 37.81%, SAT ERW 54.69% vs. 49.44%, and SAT Math 21.06% vs. 17.41%. Biology proficiency rose 7.89 percentage points year over year. Graduation stands at 94.7%, matching the district's 94.6% and exceeding the state's 89.7%.
Two areas warrant attention. Chronic absenteeism is 28.0%, well above the district's 20.4% and the state's 16.7%, meaning many students miss substantial instructional time yet still graduate. SAT Math remains below the state by 4.34 points in 2024–2025 and 8.11 points in 2025–2026, and SAT ERW fell 7.49 points to 47.2%, moving from slightly above the state to 4.7 points below it. Context matters: 58.86% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $10,899, and the student-teacher ratio is 18.7 at this large high school.
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