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Public schools in Indiana

1,037,604 pupils attended 1,919 public schools in Indiana in 2024–25, in 454 school districts. Its districts spent $13,080 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $16,398 nationally.

Indiana, 2024–25

1.0 million
Pupils
1,037,604
2.1% of the nation's public school pupils.
1,919
Public schools
Operational public schools in NCES’s 2024–25 directory.
15.3
Pupils per teacher
Over the 1,891 schools that report both counts; nationally 15.2.
134
Charter schools
5.4% of pupils.
$13,080
Spending per pupil
Current spending over fall membership, fiscal year 2023.

Indiana over time

Indiana's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 20,958 from its peak in 2018–⁠19 to 2024–⁠25

Public school membership in Indiana each fall, 2014–⁠15 to 2024–⁠25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.

Membership is the October 1 count of pupils on a school’s rolls, as the state reported it to NCES.

Every year here reports its pre-kindergarten pupils.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public school membership by state, 2014–15 onwards

The figures behind this chart
Indiana's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 20,958 from its peak in 2018–19 to 2024–25. Public school membership in Indiana each fall, 2014–15 to 2024–25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.
School yearAll gradesExcluding pre-kindergartenPre-kindergarten
2014–⁠151,046,2691,030,06316,206
2015–⁠161,046,7571,028,22818,529
2016–⁠171,049,5471,030,66518,882
2017–⁠181,054,1871,034,98919,198
2018–⁠191,055,7061,035,47020,236
2019–⁠201,051,4111,030,41720,994
2020–⁠211,033,9641,017,03916,925
2021–⁠221,036,6251,015,44021,185
2022–⁠231,036,1081,013,31022,798
2023–⁠241,032,7231,008,96723,756
2024–⁠251,040,1901,014,51225,678
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Indiana's school districts spent $13,080 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,794 in 2005, in each year's dollars

Current spending per pupil in Indiana, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in 2005 bought more than a dollar in 2023, and this chart does not say how much more.

Each year is the release NCES has published for it: provisional for most, final for fiscal years 2019 to 2022. A final release revises the provisional one by well under 1% nationally.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — every fiscal year in the current format

The figures behind this chart
Indiana's school districts spent $13,080 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,794 in 2005, in each year's dollars. Current spending per pupil in Indiana, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Fiscal yearPer pupilPupilsRelease
FY2005$8,7941,018,076Provisional
FY2006$8,7871,030,183Provisional
FY2007$8,9321,038,971Provisional
FY2008$9,0311,037,953Provisional
FY2009$9,3661,033,664Provisional
FY2010$9,5631,046,613Provisional
FY2011$9,3291,047,186Provisional
FY2012$9,6391,040,724Provisional
FY2013$9,5141,040,708Provisional
FY2014$9,4811,047,280Provisional
FY2015$9,6191,046,060Provisional
FY2016$9,7701,046,567Provisional
FY2017$9,9351,049,225Provisional
FY2018$10,1391,053,808Provisional
FY2019$10,2421,055,351Final
FY2020$10,8321,046,413Final
FY2021$11,3931,033,636Final
FY2022$12,2611,036,379Final
FY2023$13,0801,035,947Provisional
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Where Indiana’s districts got their money, fiscal year 2023

Revenue of all 444 districts in NCES’s finance file, by source. Nationally, 12.6% came from federal sources.

State sources gave Indiana's school districts 55.9% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023

Revenue of Indiana's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — newest fiscal year

The figures behind this chart
State sources gave Indiana's school districts 55.9% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023. Revenue of Indiana's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.
SourceRevenueShare of revenue
Federal$2.2 billion13.0%
State$9.5 billion55.9%
Local$5.3 billion31.1%
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The largest districts in Indiana

By fall membership in 2024–25. Spending per pupil is the same district’s fiscal year 2023 figure from NCES’s finance file, where it reports one.

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The 10 largest public school districts in Indiana, 2024–25
DistrictPupilsSchools
Fort Wayne Community Schools28,54951
Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp21,58938
Hamilton Southeastern Schools21,06222
Indianapolis Public Schools21,05550
MSD Lawrence Township16,74717
Perry Township Schools16,24321
MSD Wayne Township16,14618
Carmel Clay Schools16,14515
Tippecanoe School Corp13,66321
South Bend Community School Corp13,58031

City, suburb, town and rural schools in Indiana

30.4% of Indiana's public school pupils attended rural schools in 2024–⁠25

Pupils in Indiana's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–⁠25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public schools, newest full school year

The figures behind this chart
30.4% of Indiana's public school pupils attended rural schools in 2024–25. Pupils in Indiana's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.
LocaleSchoolsShare of schoolsPupilsShare of pupils
City53527.9%306,28829.5%
Suburb41721.7%296,38328.6%
Town24512.8%119,71811.5%
Rural72237.6%315,21530.4%
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Colleges in Indiana that take federal student aid

105 colleges in Indiana are in NCES’s IPEDS universe for 2025–26: 16 public, 42 private nonprofit and 47 private for-profit. They enrolled 660,408 students over twelve months and awarded 51,072 bachelor’s degrees.

Indiana elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crimeCrime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Most dangerous cities in IndianaCrime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison populationCrime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crimeCrime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Immigration courtsImmigration and the border

    The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

  • Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Federal civilian workforceFederal salaries

    Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

  • The Indiana Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Sources

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25; “School District Finance Survey (F-33),” fiscal year 2023; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

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