Public school / Middle
Decatur Middle School
Indianapolis, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180264000313
- District
- Msd Decatur Township
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Decatur Middle School is a public middle school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run by Msd Decatur Township. It enrols 1,060 students — the 7623rd 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
1,060
Teachers
64.0
Students per teacher
16.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.2%
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 Decatur 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.
- 1Decatur Central High School2,039 students
- 2Decatur Middle School1,060 students
- 3Blue Academy686 students
- 4Valley Mills Elementary School654 students
- 5Lynwood Elementary634 students
- 6West Newton Elementary School597 students
- 7Gold Academy591 students
- 8Stephen Decatur Elementary School448 students
- Enrollment+117.7%
- Teachers+113.3%
- Students per teacher+7.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+40.0%
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