H.L.

Harshman Magnet Middle

School

About H.L. Harshman Magnet

Middle School
Principal: Mr. James Larkin
Grade levels 7-8
Accreditation status: State
accredited
Named in honor of Harvey
Lee Harshman (past assistant
superintendent for IPS)
Became magnet school in
2010-2011

School Demographics

Enrollment

School Demographics

Racial Information

School Demographics

Socioeconomic

Community Demographics

Partners with many local business,

organizations, clubs, and schools
Optimist Club, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Bazbeaux Pizza, DREAM

Alive, Indy Yoga Movement, Legacy Center, Marian University,

Families First, TeachPoint Foundations, Gleaners Food Bank,
Downtown Indy, Inc., IUPUI, IUPUI School of Informatics, Shepherd
Community Center, Horace Mann, La Plaza, Inc., FACE Clinic, Mighty
Lotus, Peace Learning Center, BSA LifeStructures, Dow AgroScience,
EDGE Program, and WFYI

School Mission

To cultivate excellence in respectful

and responsible citizens. We want to
prepare your child for the future and
their career in life as a successful
person.

School Funding

Indiana Department of Education

gave $1,755,349.00 grant for school
improvement
The proposed annual budget is under
two million and exceeds $50,000
Average teacher salary $54,000

Report Card Data

Nature of Community
Across the from
neighborhoods
and houses

Behind and
on its side
other schools

Hot Issues

Increasing teacher salaries!

In order to retain the best and brightest
Starting salary raised to 40,000 (12.1%

increase)
Max base salary raised to 59,400 (3%
increase)
Teachers rated effective or highly effective
will receive 5-10% raise

Hot Issues

New IPS Strategic Plan

Listening to over 6,000 voices during the

superintendants listening tour, IPS visits,

meetings with focus groups, and analytical
reviews of district data
Wanted to create goals aligned with the
districts core commitments and beliefs

Hot Issues

Select new commissioner to replace

Caitlin Hannon who recently resigned
The Board selected Michael OConner
to serve until the nest election in
November 2016

Conclusion

I think that since the school is so close to

neighborhoods and because they have so much
community involvement in clubs and activities that the
community has a positive impact on the school and the
school is also having a positive impact on the
community.
The schools enrollment made a significant jump in the
past year so I concluded that good things are being
said about the school and there are probably more
positive things being said and spread around than
negative comments. If negative things were being said
I would think there wouold be a decline in enrollment.

Conclusion

They are a school trying to become better. They

recently received a grant to upgrade the school,
they recently became a magnet school, and
enrollment has increased. All these things lead me
to believe that the school is making an attempt to
make it a better school.
I think that it is also important to remember the
school is transitioning and attempting to become a
better place while looking at their grade. While
they went down one letter grade to a C, I think that
it is very clear they school is trying to change
things to make it a better place for students.