At $23,290 per pupil, Promise Prep ranks #6 of 405 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending (Indiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Promise Prep operates 1 public schools serving 69 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Indiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,290 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 41 of 405 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Indiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 8.1% local, 38.1% state, and 53.8% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
and 15.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 55.6% Hispanic or Latino, 41.7% African American, 0.7% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Promise Prep, enrolling 144 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 40.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (69 to 97 students), while the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.2 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,607,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 53.1% went to instruction, 43.3% to support services, and 0% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Promise Prep accounts for 100.0% of all Promise Prep student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Promise Prep a distant remainder — means Promise Prep-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Promise Prep chronic absenteeism rate is 15.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Promise Prep is typically wider than the Promise Prep-aggregate figure suggests.