Genealogical Society of Marion County
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NOTE: Indianapolis Public Schools Records in several categories are listed first on this page and other categories follow: 
Private and Parochial Schools, Land Records, Church Records, Death & Mortality Records, Military Records, Marion Co. Institutions, and Clubs and Fraternal Groups.
 
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INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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IPS Elementary Schools #1-114
  •   NOTE:  The elementary schools are listed in numerical order. They include grades K-8 and any combination within that area.     
Note: See Early STAFF DIRECTORIES Section Below; also the Indianapolis Public Libary has an extensive collection of IPS Staff Directories in their digital collection.
School No. 1  Nathaniel Hyde/George Rogers Clark School
School No. 2   Benjamin Harrison School   The school is still in use as a Center For Inquiry school. 
School No. 3 Lucretia Mott School   [The building still exists and is in use as an apartment building.] 
School No. 4  George Merritt/Mary E. Cable School
School No. 5  Oscar C. McCulloch School   [You can see the facade of this school inside the Indiana State Museum.] 
School No. 6  Austin H. Brown School  [Formerly Center Township Sixth Ward School.]
School No. 7  Thomas Jefferson School      [Former Center Township Seventh Ward School started in 1871.]
School No. 8  Calvin Fletcher School      [The school building still exists and is now apartments.] 
School No. 9   Clemens Vonnegut School   [Formerly the Center Township Ninth Ward School. The building is now  commercial offices.]
School No. 10  Henrietta Colgan School   (Formerly Center Township School Ten)
School No. 11  Lew Wallace/Edgar H. Evans School   [In 1872 this school was at  Fourth and Tennessee and later at 13th and Capitol]
School No. 12  Robert Dale Owen School
School No. 13  Horace Mann School
School No. 14  Washington Irving School  [School started in 1873 at State and Washington]
School No. 15  Thomas D. Gregg School
School No. 16  Oscar S. Deitch School   [School started in 1860 as Indianola School Wayne Township]
School No. 17  Booker T. Washington School
School No. 18   Abraham Lincoln School   [In 1875 this school was on Yandes Street between Home Ave. and Lincoln St.]
School No. 19  Frederick Douglass School  [School opened in 1906]
School No. 20  Otis E. Brown School   [In 1875 this school was on Spruce St. south of Prospect]
School No. 21 Florence Fay School   [There is a School 21 Museum and Library in the former school building, now a senior housing unit-2022.]
School No. 22  Nebraska Cropsey School      
School No. 23 Charles Sumner School   [School opened in 1870]
School No. 24  William D. McCoy School
School No. 25  Catherine Merrill School
School No. 26 John Hope School
School No. 27  Charity Dye School   [School started in 1882]
School No. 28  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow School
School No. 29 Oliver P. Morton School
School No. 30  John McCormick School
School No. 31  (1955) Lillian M. Reiffel/(1990) James A. Garfield School [Until 1955 IPS31 was unnamed.] 
School No. 32  Wallace Foster School
School No. 33  John Greenleaf Whittier School
School No. 34   Eleanor Skillen School  [School started in 1912]
School No. 35  James A. Garfield School                                                                                                                                                  Note: Sch. 35 closed in 1990; Garfield name given to Sch. 31
School No. 36  Benjamin Franklin School
School No. 37   Hazel Hart Hendricks School
School No. 38  John James Audubon School
School No. 39 William McKinley School   [School opened in 1897]
School No. 40  Robert Gould Shaw School
School No. 41  George W. Sloan School
School No. 42   Elder W. Diggs School
School No. 43   James Whitcomb Riley School   [School opened in 1909]
School No. 44    Riverside School
School No. 45   William Watson Woollen School
School No. 46  Daniel Webster School  [School started in 1880 as Belmont School.]
School No. 47  Thomas A. Edison School   [Started in 1887]
School No. 48  Louis B. Russell, Jr. School
School No. 49  William Penn School
School No. 50  Nathaniel Hawthorne School
School No. 51   James Russell Lowell School
School No. 52  Emmanuel Haugh School   [Former Haughville School 1, Wayne Twp]
School No. 53  J. K. Lilly, Sr. School
School No. 54  Brookside School
School No. 55  Eliza A. Blaker School   [School started in 1957]
School No. 56  Francis W. Parker School
School No. 57 George W. Julian School   [School started in 1904]
School No. 58  Ralph Waldo Emerson School
School No. 59 Merle Sidener School   [School started in 1952]
School No. 60  William A. Bell School
School No. 61  Clarence L. Farrington School
School No. 62  Calvin N. Kendall School
School No. 63  Wendell Phillips School
School No. 64  Harriet Beecher Stowe School
School No. 65  Raymond F. Brandes School
School No. 66  Henry P. Coburn School
School No. 67  Stephen Foster School   [School started in 1914]
School No. 68  Susan Roll Leach School  [School started 1937; built by WPA]
School No. 69  Joyce Kilmer School 
School No. 70  Mary E. Nicholson School    [Former township school]
School No. 71  Daniel T. Weir School   [School opened in 1953]
School No. 72  Emma Donnan School
School No. 73  Robert Browning School  
School No. 74  Theodore Potter School
School No. 75  Woodrow Wilson School   [School opened in 1921]
School No. 76  Paul C. Stetson School
School No. 77   Anna Pearl Hamilton School
School No. 78   Minnie Hartmann School   [School started in 1926]
School No. 79   Carl Wilde School
School No. 80   Frances Willard School   [School started in 1929]
School No. 81  Parkview School
School No. 82  Christian Park School   [School opened in 1931]
School No. 83  Floro Torrence School
School No. 84  Joseph J. Bingham School   [School opened in 1928]
School No. 85  George B. Loomis School         More IPS85 items at the Irvington Hist Soc.
School No. 86  DeWitt S. Morgan School   [School opened in 1928]
School No. 87  George Washington Carver School
School No. 88  Anna Brochhausen School   [School opened in 1956]
School No. 89  Kenneth Walker School
School No. 90  Ernie Pyle School      [School started in 1951]
School No. 91  Rousseau McClellan School   [School opened in 1939]
School No. 92  Booth Tarkington School   [School opened in 1959]
School No. 93  George H. Fisher School
School No. 94  George Buck School
School No. 95  William H. Evans School   [Former Center Township School 2]
School No. 96  Meredith Nicholson School
School No. 97  James E. Roberts School
School No. 98  T. C. Steele School
School No. 99  Arlington Woods School
School No. 100  Flackville School    [Former Wayne Township School 1]
School No. 101  H. L. Harshman School
School No. 102  Francis Bellamy School
School No. 103  Francis Scott Key School
School No. 104  
School No. 105 Charles Warren Fairbanks School
School No. 106  Robert Lee Frost School
School No. 107  Lew Wallace School
School No.108  Willard J. Gambold School
School No. 109  Jonathan Jennings School
School No. 110  Julian D.Coleman School
School No. 111  Albert Walsman School  [Formerly Center Township School 3; see Township Schools Section]
School No. 112  Margaret McFarland School  [Formerly Center Township School 4]
School No. 113  Lewis W. Gilfoy School
School No. 114   Paul I. Miller School
Cold Spring School
Forest Manor School
Mapleton-Fall Creek School
Kennedy Middle School
IPS Secondary Schools
NOTE: HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS
  • 1. Our GSMC Library has an extensive collection of Marion County yearbooks, which our Members and Guests are free to use. 2. The Indianapolis Public Library has a large collection of Marion County high school yearbooks digitized and available on their website. www.digitalindy.org/cdm 3. We have a limited number of high school yearbooks for sale in our library--contact us about titles and years.
Arlington High School
Arsenal Technical High School   [We also have a Manuscript Box for Tech.]
Broad Ripple High School
Emmerich Manual Training High School   
Emmerich Manual Training High School "Booster" Newspaper   
Crispus Attucks High School       [ Researchers should contact/visit the Crispus Attucks Museum on the campus of the current Attucks Medical Magnet High School; go to myIPS.org for school details.]
George Washington High School  
Harry E. Wood High School
John Marshall High School [We're searching.]
Northwest High School
Shortridge/Indianapolis High School
Thomas Carr Howe High School
Indianapolis Teacher Training/Normal School        [A Teachers College operated by IPS from March 1, 1867.]
School of Practical Nursing         [A Technical School operated by IPS.]
Indpls School Enumerations
Support Documents
Annual Enumerations Within Indianapolis City Limits 
IPS Employee Records
Teacher Appointment Registers, 1876-1881
Teacher Employment Histories, 1880s-1900
Teacher Appointment Registers, 1921-1926
Teacher Contracts
IPS General Items
IPS News Publications  [All Word/Surname Searchable]
IPS Social Service Ledger, Truancy Dept. 1910-1917 [This handwritten record book was donated to GSMC some years ago; it is not indexed, but is browsable by section.]
IPS Staff Directories   [Notes: Years from 1874 to 1899 are scans of marginal photocopies-OCR works imperfectly; Schools are listed numerically, staff listed by school-grade level-room number-home address; Janitors are on some lists.] (We have an extensive collection of 20th Century staff directories in our library.) 
NON-IPS School Records
Private and Independent Schools
Note: See also Township Schools Section in Members 2.
Parochial Schools   [We recommend visiting the Archdiocese Archives]
NON-SCHOOL RECORDS
Deaths & Related Records
Marion County Mortality Records, Sep. 1, 1872 to Dec. 31, 1881   [Sep 2024]
Hurt Funeral Home Records  [Sep 2024]
Marion County Probate Records, Jan 1830-Aug 1852  [Sep2024]
Marion County Church Records
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Note 2 Various Files
Baptist Church Resources
Catholic Church Resources
Catholic: Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Catholic: St. Joan of Arc Church
Catholic: St.Michaels Catholic Church
Christian/Disciples of Christ/Church of Christ Resources
Christian: Central Christian Church
Christian: Linwood Christian Church
Congregational Church Resources
Congregational: First Church
Congregational: Plymouth Church 
Episcopal: Christ Church Cathedral Parish Registers (Copied by Jane Darlington)
Episcopal: St. Paul's Episcipal Church Parish Registers (Copied by Jane Darlington)
Episcopal: Trinity Episcopal Church Parish Registers (Copied by Jane Darlington)
Evangelical Church Resources
Jewish/Hebrew Church Resources
Jewish: Congregation Beth-El Zedeck
Lutheran Church Resources
Lutheran: Danish Evangelical Trinity Lutheran Church Records                                                                                                   [Donated by Barbara George]
Methodist Church Resources
Methodist: Brightwood United Methodist Church                                                                                                           Note: These records were rescued and donated by Wilma Bible-Collier.                                                                                                                                                        Note: Ledger records are a left page and right page set. 
Methodist: St. Paul Brightwood United Methodist Church                                                                                                 Note: These records were rescued and submitted by Wilma Bible-Collier 
Presbyterian Church Resources
Presbyterian: Third/Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
Society of Friends (Quaker) Resources
Marion County Government
Marion County/Indianapolis Police Departments
Marion County/Indianapolis Fire Departments
Clubs & Fraternal Groups
International Order of Odd Fellows  [These files were scanned by GSMC at the Indiana State HQ in Indianapolis.]  Necrology files from statewide Annual Proceedings; surname/word searchable.
Marion County Land Records
Original Landowner Title Abstract Series [To do OCR search, download file first]
Tuxedo Park Title Abstract Collection
Land Support Files [To do OCR search, download file first.]
Military Records-Various
Revolutionary War     Note: Veterans Reportedly In Marion County
Miliria and War of 1812          Note: Marion County formed in 1822. 
Mexican-American War
Civil War: Regular Military and Veterans
Civil War: Indiana Legion Units
World War One
Indiana National Guard-Marion County [1800's]
Indiana National Guard-Marion County [1938]
World War Two     A Collection of Marion-County-Specific military files
Other Military