Voters residing in the district boundary can vote for all at-large candidates. This November, incumbents are running in each of the races with no challengers. The plan is expected to include some of the strategies outlined in the Indiana Black Academic Excellence Plan developed by the Indiana State Conference of the NAACP.
The district is currently creating a strategic plan that will address issues around differences in student achievement along racial and income groups. The district's most recent graduation rate is 79.6 percent, below the state average of 87 percent. This year, nearly 12 percent of Wayne Township students passed both the math and English sections of the ILEARN test - a 12 point drop from before the pandemic. Thirty-seven percent of students are Black, 30 percent are Hispanic and around 67 percent identified as low-income during the last school year. Four of seven school board seats are on the ballot for the district in the western part of Marion County, which educates more than 16,000 students.
This article was co-published by Chalkbeat Indiana and WFYI as part of a collaboration ahead of the 2022 school board elections.Īll candidates in the election for the board of Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township are uncontested. The four incumbent candidates in the November election for the board of Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township are uncontested.
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