Summary:
ZIP code 46227 in Indianapolis contains three high schools serving grades 9–12: Southport High School, Excel Center - University Heights, and The Hope Academy Inc. Together they enroll 2,894 students. Southport High School, part of Perry Township Schools, is by far the largest at 2,431 students — 84% of all high-school students in the ZIP — while the other two enroll 432 and 31 students. Those two smaller schools are each their own district and share the same Madison Avenue address, suggesting they may serve specialized or alternative student populations.
Southport High School has the strongest outcomes here. Its graduation rate is 94.4%, above the state's 89.7%, and it posts the highest reported test scores in the ZIP, though still below state levels in SAT reading and writing (39.09%), SAT math (16.23%), and Biology. Its chronic absenteeism of 38.5% is more than double the state's 16.7% and well above its district's 20.4%. Excel Center - University Heights faces the steepest challenges: a 3.7% graduation rate, 90.1% chronic absenteeism, a 0-star rating, 0% reported SAT proficiency, a 36:1 student-teacher ratio, and $3,606 in per-student spending.
The Hope Academy Inc. is the resource outlier. It spends $47,333 per student — roughly 4.2 times Southport and 13.1 times Excel Center — with a student-teacher ratio of 1.8, yet its 2024-25 SAT proficiency was 14.29% in both subjects, and its graduation rate (81.8%) and absenteeism (26.9%) also trail state benchmarks. No school in the ZIP ranks in the top half of Indiana high schools, and all three exceed the state absenteeism rate. Some 2025-26 scores for the smaller schools are suppressed, so those results should be treated as unknown rather than weak.
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