Celebrate 50 years of INPEA!
On February 17, 1974, twelve school leaders first met to form an association that would represent the interests of non-public schools across Indiana. Since that day fifty years ago, INPEA has emerged as the voice and advocate for Indiana’s non-public schools.
INPEA kicked off our 50th anniversary celebration year at INPAC in September. We look forward to celebrating with our non-pub friends in the coming months!
Save the Date
INPEA Day at the Statehouse
Monday, January 27, 2025
Indiana Statehouse Atrium
INPEA 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Indiana Roof Ballroom
Organizational Milestones
- 1974: 12 representatives met to form an association that would represent the interests of non-public schools in Indiana
- 1976: Schools invited to INPEA membership for $5 a school
- 1987: INPEA hosts the first administrators’ conference (INPAC)
- 1992: INPEA becomes Indiana’s state affiliate for the Council for American Private Education (CAPE) network
- 1994: INPEA hires first full-time executive director
- 1995: INPEA office opens at the O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis
- 1996: INPEA hosts the first educators’ conference (INPEC)
- 2010: Indiana Non-Public Advisory Committee reestablished, providing a direct non-public school voice to the Indiana Department of Education
- 2016: With the help of a grant from the Dekko Foundation, INPEA adds the Communications and Member Relations Director position
- 2017: Business Partners program established with three inaugural partners, including Catapult Learning, our longest participating Business Partner
- 2023: INPEA hires its first Associate Executive Director
- 2024: INPEA continues to advocate for school choice programs for all Hoosier families, which currently serve more than 70,000 students today
Success By the Numbers
- Established with just nine schools and four jurisdictions, INPEA now includes nearly 400 member schools and 12 jurisdictions
- To accommodate the expanded programs and services provided to schools, dues have grown from the inaugural cost of $5/school and $1/student to the current $5.89/student
- Since 1995, 14 people have served INPEA as full and part-time staff; INPEA currently employs four staff members
- Since INPEA’s first full-time executive director was hired in 1995, only three people have filled this role
- INPEA has hosted 23 INPAC conferences since our inaugural conference in 1987 and 12 INPEC conferences since 1996
- In 2023, 2,342 educators attended INPEA’s educators’ conference (INPEC)
- The number of students accessing Indiana Choice Scholarships has grown from 3,919 in 2011 to 70,079 in 2023
- Since 2011, $2,251,000,000 has been provided to Hoosier families for Choice Scholarships
- Since 2017, INPEA has had 16 different Business Partners
- Nationwide, parental choice programs reached 1,000,000 students served in 2023-2024
