Public school / High
Ben Davis High School
Indianapolis, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 181281002028
- District
- Msd Wayne Township
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ben Davis High School is a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run by Msd Wayne Township. It enrols 3,392 students — the 171st largest of 1,930 public schools in Indiana.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
3,392
Teachers
183.0
Students per teacher
18.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
66.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Msd Wayne Township
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Ben Davis High School3,392 students
- 2Ben Davis Ninth Grade Center1,307 students
- 3Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center1,237 students
- 4Lynhurst 7th & 8th Grade Center1,203 students
- 5Chapel Glen Elementary School839 students
- 6Mcclelland Elementary School809 students
- 7Chapelwood Elementary School779 students
- 8Garden City Elementary School776 students
- Enrollment+596.5%
- Teachers+510.0%
- Students per teacher+19.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+22.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory