An Indianapolis school pairs reading intervention with housing help for families
A nonprofit-run Indianapolis Public Schools campus rebuilt around family support and daily reading blocks is showing early gains after years as one of the district's lowest performers.
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According to the piece, when the Near Eastside Innovation School Corporation took over Washington Irving School 14 in 2023 under Indianapolis Public Schools' Innovation Network, it added daily 40-minute reading and math intervention blocks, dropped middle grades to focus on elementary students, and made families eligible for an affiliated affordable-housing program run by a neighborhood nonprofit. The school also connects to a separately funded Promise Neighborhood initiative that pays for attendance incentives and a food pantry. Reading scores have ticked up, though state test results in English and math still lag district goals, so the piece is useful less as a finished success story than as a case study in bundling academic and family-support interventions under one school leadership team.
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