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Public school / High

New Castle Schools at the Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy

Knightstown, Indiana

NCES ID
180744002750
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

New Castle Schools at the Hoosier Youth Challenge Academy is a public high school in Knightstown, Indiana, run by New Castle Community School Corp. It enrols 52 students — the 91466th largest of 1,930 public schools in Indiana.

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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

52students

91466th nationally, tied with 78

Teachers

7.0FTE

87274th nationally, tied with 1,180

Students per teacher

7.4students

3241st nationally, tied with 109

Free or reduced-price lunch

36.5%percent

63822nd nationally, tied with 81

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.

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Within New Castle Community School Corp

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1New Castle High School836 students
  2. 2New Castle Middle School666 students
  3. 3Wilbur Wright Elementary School294 students
  4. 4Eastwood Elementary School274 students
  5. 5Westwood Elementary School260 students
  6. 6Parker Elementary School258 students
  7. 7James Whitcomb Riley Elem School235 students
  8. 8Sunnyside Elementary School64 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Indiana median across 1,930 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−89.3%
  • Teachers−76.7%
  • Students per teacher−52.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−32.0%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.