Summary:
Arcola, Indiana is home to exactly one school: Arcola School, an elementary school serving grades K–5 at 11006 Arcola Rd, Arcola, IN 46704, with 227 students in the Northwest Allen County Schools district. The area has 1 elementary school and no middle, high, or alternative schools, so families here have a single local option before moving on to other schools for later grades.
Arcola School is a strong performer by several measures. It earned a 4-star rating in each of the three reported years — 2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026 — and its 2025–2026 rank of 242 out of 1,015 places it in the 76th percentile, or the top quartile statewide. Its district is also highly ranked at 53rd of 374 districts, in the 86th percentile, with 4 stars. Math is the clearest academic strength: all-grades math proficiency is 60.66%, which is 10.63 percentage points above the district's 50.03%, and Grade 3 math stands out at 89.47%. Chronic absenteeism is exceptionally low at 3.9%, compared with 7.8% in the district and 16.7% statewide.
There are a few things to watch. The school's rank percentile has eased from 84 to 81 to 76 across the three reported years even though the star rating held at 4. All-grades ELA slipped from 62.61% in 2024–2025 to 51.64% in 2025–2026, though it remains slightly above the district's 50.87%. Grade 5 results trail district peers in ELA (43.75% vs. 47.95%), math (41.67% vs. 42.9%), and social studies (60.42% vs. 65.4%), while still exceeding state averages. With only 227 students, grade-level rates rest on small groups and can swing year to year. Aside from that, the school reports 32.16% free/reduced lunch, $11,956 per-student spending, and a 13.2 student-teacher ratio, but the available data provides no district or state comparisons for those measures, so they are useful context only.
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