However, IPS leaders said at Tuesday night’s school board meeting they don’t want the school to exceed 900 students. The Broad Ripple middle school will be an international baccalaureate program serving grades 6-8 that can hold 1,800 students. The creation of a new middle school at Broad Ripple is part of the district’s Rebuilding Stronger plan to split up the district’s K-8 schools and create more stand-alone middle schools.Īlong with Broad Ripple, the former Thomas Carr Howe High School building will also be brought back as a middle school for the 2024-25 school year. The middle school will take up the first and second floors and won't open to students until the 2024-25 school year.Įducation news: Indiana's largest teachers' colleges failing on teaching science of reading The agreement approved Thursday means that the high school will get to keep using the third floor until at least 2027. The north campus of Purdue Polytechnic High School, a charter innovation school, has been using the third floor of the school since the start of the 2022-23 school year. Broad Ripple High School will be used for one innovation charter high school and a new middle school for the 2024-25 school year, the Indianapolis Public School Board of Commissioners agreed Thursday.ĭiscussions about using the former Broad Ripple High School building for a new middle school have been happening since the Rebuilding Stronger plan was announced last year, but this week IPS leaders announced more details on how the arrangement will work.
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