Indianapolis Public Schools wants not only our students to be educated on financial wellness but also our employees!

At the January 20 Academics Briefing Session, the IPS Board of School Commissioners was presented with updates on several district initiatives.

We’re now officially halfway through the school year, and we’ve got some exciting things on the horizon for 2015!

More than 200 Indianapolis Public Schools students participated in a state-qualifying archery tournament at Broad Ripple Magnet High School for the Arts and Humanities. IPS and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources brought the National Archery in the Schools Program to 37 schools throughout our district.

The Indianapolis Public Schools planetarium is housed in Stuart Hall on the Arsenal Technical High School campus. Gail Schwoebel has been a Planetarium Director for over 20 years, both at Arlington High School when it was part of IPS and at Arsenal Tech when the planetarium moved there.

A group of compassionate IPS students saw a need in the community and took some amazing action to help! It all started when Mrs. Shari Peterson’s 2nd grade class heard about financial troubles at Indianapolis Animal Care and Control. A newspaper article on the rough conditions for animals there sparked a serious conversation among their Meredith Nicholson School 96 classroom.

High school students from IPS are teaming up with community partners to share their unique voices in a creative way. Students from Northwest Community High School and George Washington Community High School received Youth as Resources (YAR) grants from the United Way of Central Indiana.

In 2013 Broad Ripple freshman Jessica Halsmer won the 100-meter backstroke at the City Swim Meet. Now a year later she not only won the same race, but her time of 1:01.56 broke a City Swim Meet Record.

Center for Inquiry students learn about the importance of being a global citizen each school day, and the 3rd grade classes at CFI 84 take community service to an international level!

Indianapolis Public Schools is committed to offering stellar education not just to our students, but to our families as well. Many IPS locations offer families great financial education opportunities.