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Shelbyville, Indiana - 1 schools
At $5,147 per pupil, Excel Center - Shelbyville ranks #395 of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending (Indiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
141
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$5,147
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Excel Center - Shelbyville operates 1 public schools serving 141 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Indiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Shelby County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $5,147 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 41 of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Indiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 1.8% local, 91.6% state, and 6.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Demographically, the student body averages 54.2% White, 30.5% Hispanic or Latino, 7.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Excel Center - Shelbyville, enrolling 131 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Excel Center - Shelbyville accounts for 92.9% of all Excel Center - Shelbyville student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Excel Center - Shelbyville a distant remainder — means Excel Center - Shelbyville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Excel Center - Shelbyville has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 72.3% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.