Summary:
Austin, Indiana has three public schools serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade: Austin Elementary School (K–5, 645 students), Austin Middle School (6–8, 254 students), and Austin High School (9–12, 429 students). All three share the same campus address and belong to Scott County School District 1, which is ranked 298 of 374 Indiana districts — the 20th percentile — with a 1-star rating. Total enrollment across the city is 1,328 students.
Each school tells a different story. Austin High School has the strongest attendance and completion results: a 91.9% graduation rate, above the state's 89.7%, and 14.3% chronic absenteeism, better than both the district's 19.3% and the state's 16.7%. Yet only 9.09% of students met SAT Math proficiency in 2025–26, versus 25.6% statewide, and Biology EOC proficiency fell from 44.12% to 27.68%. Austin Middle School is the clearest bright spot, improving its rank percentile from 22 to 24 to 28 over three years, with ELA at 26.62% and Math at 19.39% — both above district averages, though still below state and with Science slipping from 31.76% to 28.87%. Austin Elementary School faces the greatest challenges: the lowest rank percentile (19), the highest chronic absenteeism (23.7%, about 7 points above the state), and the largest achievement gaps, including 3rd grade Math at 18.68% against the state's 51.9%.
Per-student spending is $9,528 at the elementary, $10,368 at the middle school, and $12,022 at the high school — about 26% higher than the elementary. All three schools carry a 1-star rating and sit below the 30th percentile. Note that student-teacher ratio data are unreliable here: the elementary figure is blank, the middle school reports 254, and the high school reports 47.6.
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