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Indianapolis, Indiana - 3 schools
293
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Indiana Department of Correction operates 3 public schools serving 293 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Indiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined 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 Marion County.
a 153:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Pendleton Juvenile Correctional accounts for 52.2% of all Indiana Department of Correction student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Indiana Department of Correction a distant remainder — means Indiana Department of Correction-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Indiana Department of Correction school enrollment varies 4.4× across entities
Indiana Department of Correction school enrollment ranges from 35 students (lowest) to 153 students (highest), a spread of 118 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Indiana Department of Correction student-counselor ratio is 153:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Indiana Department of Correction's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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