Public school / High
Lawrence Central High School
Indianapolis, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180567001029
- District
- Msd Lawrence Township
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Lawrence Central High School is a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run by Msd Lawrence Township. It enrols 2,317 students — the 1020th 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
2,317
Teachers
118.0
Students per teacher
19.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.2%
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 Lawrence 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.
- 1Lawrence North High School2,861 students
- 2Lawrence Central High School2,317 students
- 3Fall Creek Valley Middle School1,351 students
- 4Early Learning Center1,298 students
- 5Belzer Middle School1,183 students
- 6Forest Glen Elementary School880 students
- 7Amy Beverland Elementary810 students
- 8Harrison Hill Elementary School723 students
- Enrollment+375.8%
- Teachers+293.3%
- Students per teacher+26.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.3%
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