Summary:
ZIP code 46229 on the east side of Indianapolis is served by exactly one public high school: Warren Central High School, a grades 9–12 campus at 9500 E 16th St with 3,391 students. It is part of MSD Warren Township, a district ranked 315th of 374 statewide (16th percentile, 1 star). Because it is the only high school option inside this ZIP code, families here have no in-area alternative — so the school's profile is the area's profile.
The school's most striking feature is a split between graduation and proficiency. Its 2024–25 graduation rate of 89.7% exactly matches the Indiana state figure and beats its district's 87.1%. Yet proficiency lags well behind the state: SAT Math sits at 8.26% (state 25.6%), SAT Reading/Writing at 27.82% (state 51.9%), and Biology ILEARN at 22.65%. In other words, roughly one in three students reaches the state's math proficiency rate — the deepest deficit, and the slowest-improving subject (up just 0.38 points year over year, versus 1.72 points in Biology). Statewide, the school ranks 348th of 415 with a 1-star rating, holding in the 16th–18th percentile across three years, so its ranking has been essentially flat rather than improving.
The clearest opportunity area is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 30.3%, above the district's 21.4% and nearly double the state's 16.7% — about 1,000 of the school's students. It is the only reported measure where the school trails its own district; on every academic measure it slightly outperforms it, which suggests these are system-wide patterns rather than a single-school anomaly. Context: 58.24% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $12,809, and the student–teacher ratio is 16.1 to 1.
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