North Central High School

Overview

North Central High School is a large public high school on the north side of Indianapolis, in Marion County. NCES directory data records 1,594 students eligible for free lunch and 187 for reduced-price lunch out of 3,682 total enrollment.

Academics

No independently verified Indiana state assessment or letter-grade data (via INview) was located for this profile; check the Indiana Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school sits on Indianapolis's north side, generally considered one of the city's lower-crime areas per several sources cited below, though this is a large, geographically broad part of the city.

Crime & safety

Indianapolis produced an unusually wide spread of overall safety framings, even by this directory's standards: one source describes it as "safer than only 2-4% of U.S. cities" and "one of the nation's most dangerous areas," another gives it a C+ grade at the 51st percentile (essentially average), and a third reports 90% of individual Indianapolis neighborhoods grade out as A or B for safety. These aren't necessarily contradictory -- a city can have a high aggregate/citywide rate driven by concentrated high-crime pockets while most individual neighborhoods, including the north side where this school is located, remain comparatively safe -- but presented without qualification, the "2-4th percentile" framing and the "90% of neighborhoods are safe" framing tell very different stories to a reader. Multiple sources specifically named the Near Eastside, Haughville/West Side, Martindale-Brightwood, and parts of the Far Eastside as higher-concern areas, distinct from the north side.

Our calculated rating

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