The top reported proficiency rate is 19% in English language arts. The lowest is 0% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Indy Steam Academy
Indy Steam Academy serves kindergarten through sixth grade as a single-school district in Marion County. The school is a charter school that has recently closed. A parent reading this today will want to know that the school shut down at the end of the 2023-24 school year after the Indiana Charter School Board voted unanimously to revoke its charter in May 2024. The stated reasons included missed financial reporting deadlines, compliance concerns with the Indiana Department of Education, and the resignation of all but one board member. For any family that was enrolled, students needed to find new schools for the following year. GEO Next Generation Academy was approved to expand into the same building as a K-6 school.
The student body was small and predominantly Black, with a notable Hispanic share and very small numbers of white, multiracial, or other backgrounds. The school served kindergarten through sixth grade, though enrollment data showed a small number of seventh graders as well, likely reflecting a transitional group. State testing data is available for grades three through six in the 2023-24 school year. The share of students meeting proficiency on the ILEARN state assessment was low in math, English language arts, science, and social studies. In math, about one in six students scored at the proficient level or above. In English language arts, about one in five did. In science, roughly one in six tested students were proficient. In fifth-grade social studies, no student met the proficiency bar. Overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades placed the school below the midpoint when compared with other districts in Marion County. The school's chronic absenteeism rate was very high, sitting in the bottom quartile among the county's districts, which is a pattern that often correlates with the deeper challenges a community may face and that a parent may want to ask about directly. Per-pupil current spending fell in the middle range but on the lower half relative to other Marion County districts.
Because the school served only elementary and middle grades, there is no high school graduation rate to examine. The school's website and program offerings were not provided in the data, so there is no information about extracurriculars, special academic pathways, or enrichment programming. The school's name included STEAM, suggesting a focus on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics, but no specific curriculum details or partnership descriptions were available in the material used here to confirm what that looked like in practice.
No locale brief was supplied, so there is no description of the surrounding neighborhood or housing market. The school was located in Indianapolis, Marion County. Without that context, it is not possible to say what the commute, housing costs, or community feel are like. Similarly, no discipline data, staffing ratios, or teacher qualifications were provided, so a parent looking for information on class sizes or school climate would need to contact the district directly or look at state report cards.
This is a school that no longer exists in its prior form. The academic results and attendance patterns were challenging, and the charter revocation was a definitive closure event. A family looking at this record today is essentially reading a postmortem, not an active enrollment option. The more relevant question is what replaced it. According to public reports, GEO Next Generation Academy received approval to open a K-6 school in the same building starting the following year, which may be the school a parent would investigate instead.
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