Public school / Primary
Theodore Potter School 74
Indianapolis, Indiana
- NCES ID
- 180477000893
- District
- Indianapolis Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Theodore Potter School 74 is a public primary school in Indianapolis, Indiana, run by Indianapolis Public Schools. It enrols 254 students — the 71781st 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
254
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
10.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
64.6%
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 Indianapolis Public Schools
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.
- 1Arsenal Technical High School2,366 students
- 2Crispus Attucks High School1,188 students
- 3Shortridge High School1,089 students
- 4George Washington High School753 students
- 5Edison School of the Arts 47626 students
- 6Ips/Butler Lab at William Bell 60599 students
- 7Carl Wilde School 79598 students
- 8H L Harshman Middle School549 students
- Enrollment−47.8%
- Teachers−20.0%
- Students per teacher−31.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+20.3%
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