Shortridge is the home of the International Baccalaureate and arts and humanities programs of the Indianapolis Public Schools district (IPS).

Shortridge High School in Indianapolis produced not only me, but the head writer on the I LOVE LUCY show (Madelyn Pugh).

[10] She was the first of a number of black students to graduate from Shortridge prior to the opening of Crispus Attucks High School.

Based on the annual Shortridge yearbook of 1918,[13] the talking points included: daylight saving time, workmen's compensation, women's suffrage, amendments to abolish jury trials, eight-hour law, the metric system, and many others.

Faculty in charge included Flora Love, Rosa M. R. Mikels, Mary E. Sullivan, and Virginia Claybough.

Under direction from Red Cross, both students and teachers also knitted socks, hats, and helmets.

Notably, the creation of Crispus Attucks was in large part due to the influence of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan led by D.C. Stephenson, on the city's school board[citation needed].

[18] The environment in the school in the 1950s was described in the novel Going All The Way by Shortridge High alumnus Dan Wakefield (published in 1970 and adapted to film in 1997).

[citation needed] As the 1960s progressed, so-called "white flight" in the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the school led to a predominantly-black student body.

[citation needed] The United States Department of Justice filed a suit in 1968 charging de jure segregation in Indianapolis.

In 1971, U.S. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin found the IPS Board of School Commissioners to be guilty of de jure segregation.

In February 1969, Shortridge student Otto Breeding was arrested for "disorderly conduct" after a disagreement with school officials over appropriate clothing.

Students who felt this was unfair attempted to disrupt the school, pulling fire alarms, and chanting “Black Power” in the halls.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra was scheduled to present a concert the next day in the school's historic auditorium, Caleb Mills Hall.

The students returned to Shortridge and gathered in front of the building and shouted various protest chants (e.g. “Say it loud!

As the protest continued, the police were called, and thirty students and adults were taken to the Marion County Jail.

This caused mixed reactions within the community, leading some of the city's religious leaders to side with the students.

While the charges wound their way through the courts, a "freedom school" was set up to help the suspended students keep up with their academic work.

Eventually, all charges against the students were dismissed and three civil rights leaders were given fines, with one receiving six months at the Indiana State Prison Farm.

In 2009, a high school magnet program for grades 9 to 12 that was focused on law and public policy was added.

In 1981, its final year of its initial run, a much-abbreviated Echo still won the second place overall award from the Columbia University Scholastic Press Association.

Michael N. Selby and Edie Cassell were the last co-editors-in-chief, and Chris Keys was the last sports editor of the Shortridge Weekly Echo when it ceased publication with the school's closure in 1981.

When Shortridge was reopened as a high school in 2009, students brought back the Echo as well and has been published as either a daily or weekly.

The Blue Devils ran up a 17-4 record, reaching the final game of the Indiana state championship, only to lose by eight points; they finished the season at 25-5 (.833).