The top reported proficiency rate is 7% in Science. The lowest is 0% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Him by Her Collegiate School for the Arts
HIM By HER Collegiate School for the Arts is a closed charter school. It served middle grades in Indianapolis and permanently shut down in January 2023, mid-school year. The district that operated it, HIM By HER Collegiate School for the Arts School District, no longer runs any schools, and the corporate entity was voluntarily dissolved in December 2023. Any reader looking for an active school will need to look elsewhere; this profile exists to document what was.
The school opened in 2020. From the beginning, enrollment was thin, with only a few dozen students in its first year, and while it grew modestly afterward, the numbers never reached a level that could cover the cost of its leased building. Publicly reported sources note that the Indiana Charter School Board staff twice recommended denying the charter before Ball State University approved it, raising early concerns about financial projections and the educational model. Those concerns proved prescient. When the closure was announced, roughly two hundred students had to find new schools.
The only academic achievement data available comes from the 2021-22 school year, the last full year before the closure. On the state's ILEARN assessments for grades three through eight, the share of students scoring proficient or above was extremely low in every subject tested. In math, that share was in the low single digits. In English language arts, it was similarly low. In science, it was in the single digits. No student scored proficient in social studies among those tested. These results reflect a single year of testing for a small, early-stage school, and a parent reading this today should understand that there is no later data to show whether the school was making progress, because it closed before any subsequent test results could be reported.
The school was a regular public charter school, not a magnet, and served only middle school grades. No enrollment count, free-or-reduced-price lunch share, or racial and ethnic breakdown is available in the data. No graduation rate applies, because the school did not serve high school grades. No information on discipline, course access, or staffing is present. A comparison to neighboring schools or districts was not included in the data either.
The housing context for the surrounding Indianapolis area shows that home values have been well below the national typical level, and rents have been modest relative to national benchmarks. The area has seen a slight decline in home values over the most recent year, while rents have edged up a bit. The broader economic picture shows an unemployment rate near the national average and a national median household income that has been gradually rising. Those figures describe the neighborhood, not the school itself, but they give a sense of the community that surrounded HIM By HER during its short life.
The story of this school is one of a rapid opening and an even faster closure. It did not survive long enough to establish a track record or to show whether its arts-focused model could produce different results over time. The state testing data from its only full year of operations shows very low proficiency rates across all subjects. There is no later information to suggest improvement. For a family looking at this school today, the relevant fact is that it no longer exists, and the district that ran it has been dissolved.
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