Summary:
ZIP code 46219, on the east side of Indianapolis, has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Excel Center - Shadeland, which makes up its own district, Excel Center - Shadeland, and Irvington Preparatory Academy, part of Irvington Community School. Together they enroll 730 students — 404 at Excel Center - Shadeland (about 55%) and 326 at Irvington Preparatory Academy (about 45%). The two schools report very different sets of data, so several measures are available for one school but not the other.
Excel Center - Shadeland stands out for an extremely low reported graduation rate of 2.7% in 2024–2025, far below the state rate of 89.7% and 86.3 percentage points below Irvington Preparatory Academy. It also has a student-teacher ratio of 28.8, which is 2.57 times Irvington's 11.2, and a free/reduced lunch rate of 64.36%. School-level test scores for this school are not provided in this extract; only state SAT benchmarks appear.
Irvington Preparatory Academy graduates students at a typical rate — 89.0% versus the state's 89.7% — but other measures lag. Chronic absenteeism is 32.3%, nearly double the state rate of 16.7%. In 2025–2026, 44.16% of 11th graders were proficient in SAT English versus 51.9% statewide, and only 12.99% in SAT Math versus 25.6% statewide. Per-pupil spending is high at $34,521 and the student-teacher ratio is low at 11.2, yet test results and attendance are mixed. Its rank improved from 1 star in 2023–2024 to 2 stars and 35th percentile (271 of 415) in 2025–2026. Both schools serve high free/reduced lunch populations, so poverty alone does not explain the sharp difference in graduation rates.
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