Arsenal

Technical High
School

By: Tobi Akinseye

My Reason For Picking this School
I’m interested in teaching high school, this is the high

school that I graduated from and I know a lot of the

teachers who are currently teaching there. But the real

reason I chose this school was because my brother

goes there.
Table of Contents:

01. About the school & 02. Demographics &

mission statement community

03. Data & statistics

 About Arsenal Tech
● The campus was former U.S. Civil
War era Arsenal from 1864 to 1903
(hence the name)
● It opened as a public high school in
1912
● Arsenal Tech was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places in
1976
● It is the largest high school in the IPS
district
Mission Statement
Arsenal Technical High School is
committed to providing for all
students a positive, safe learning
environment; a challenging
comprehensive curriculum; the
resources to achieve worthwhile
goals; and the means to become
self-fulfilled, productive citizens.
Tech specializes in five College and Career Options
1. Career Technology Center (culinary,
cosmetology, welding, etc)
2. Construction, Architecture & Design
Academy
3. Law and Public Policy Program
4. Math & Science Program
5. New Tech (project-based learning)
Community Arsenal Technical High School is located just

outside the heart of Downtown Indianapolis and

is comprised of 20 different neighborhoods with

40,000 residents. Arsenal Tech’s neighborhood

has a 43% minority population with a median

household income of $27,600. The

unemployment rate of residents is 17% and the

neighborhood has a poverty rate of 38%. The

neighborhood experiences 80.9 violent crimes

per 1,000 people, ranking 89th-best out of 99

neighborhoods.
Demographics (2020-2021 school year)
● Total Enrollment: 2,103
Racial Demographics ● Classroom Teachers (FTE): 218
● Student teacher ratio: 9.6 to 1
● 1,132 males to 971 females

How are various student groups represented at Tech

 Arsenal Tech Statistics ISTEP Test scores

● Graduation rate: 67% vs Indiana average: 87%.

● Only 39% of Tech graduates go into higher
education after high school. While 65.8% of
Indiana graduates go directly to college
● State grade: C
● Tech dropout rate: 22.7 % vs Indiana average:
7.9%
● Average Teacher annual salary: $55,344
● Total expenditures: $33,129,477.31
● $15,387.59 per student
● Chronic Absenteeism: 46.8% vs Indiana average:
11.4% Chronic absenteeism is the rate of students
● 60.4% of the chronically absent students are who have been absent from school for at
homeless and 46.3% are economically least 10 percent of the school year, for any
disadvantaged reason.
 No-zero policy
● IPS changed their grading
policy to give students who
have fallen behind a better
chance to catch-up and get
back on track
● The policy prohibits students
from receiving less than a 50%

● School-related arrests: 10
● Safety and disciplinary
incidents: 827
● From 2017 through 2020,
the district’s Black students
were seven times more likely
to be arrested than were
white students.
Sources
● https://myips.org/arsenaltech/about-our-school/
● https://inview.doe.in.gov/schools/1053855462/population
● https://www.boarddocs.com/in/indps/Board.nsf/files/AP2PR75E3E76/%24file/Revinventing%20IPS
%20High%20Schools%20Report%20-%20June%202017.pdf