High · Indiana
Decatur Central High School
Free meals for allDecatur Central High School, a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana: grades 9–12, 1,974 students, 15.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of MSD Decatur Township.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,974
- Teachers (FTE)
- 131.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.1
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 57% of high schools in Indiana
Median 14.6 · 405 schools compared
More students per teacher than 55% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 91% of high schools in Indiana
Median 526 · 408 schools compared
Larger than 92% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large city
- Run by
- MSD Decatur Township
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with MSD Decatur Township.
Location
- Address
- 5251 Kentucky Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46221
- Phone
- (317)856-5288
- City or town
- Indianapolis
- County
- Marion County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7–12 | 0 | — | |
Excel Center - DecaturCharter | 9–12 | 259 | 32.4 |
Achieve Virtual Education AcademyMostly virtual | 7–12 | 668 | 24.6 |
Ben Davis University High SchoolFree meals for all | 10–12 | 375 | 22.1 |
| 9–12 | 1,856 | 21.5 | |
Perry Meridian High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,455 | 18.8 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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