Best Public Schools in Batesville, IN

Batesville, Indiana is served by four schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — all in the Batesville Community School Corp, which enrolls 2,220 students and is rated 4 stars, ranking 61st of 374 Indiana districts (84th percentile). Batesville High School is the largest with 681 students (about 30.7%), followed by Batesville Primary School (542, 24.4%), Batesville Middle School (507, 22.8%), and Batesville Intermediate School (490, 22.1%).

Batesville High School stands out for college readiness: a 98.2% graduation rate, 8.5 points above the state's 89.7%, with SAT reading and writing at 66.23% proficient and SAT math at 41.06%, both well above state levels. Batesville Middle School posts the highest reported test score in this data — a Biology ILEARN End of Course result of 96.77% in 2025–2026 versus the district's 61.98% — though it may reflect a small or specific test-taking group and should be read with caution. Batesville Intermediate School has the city's lowest chronic absenteeism at 1.8%, and its all-grades math (51.58%) beats the district's 46.86%.

Attendance is a district-wide strength: every Batesville school is far below the state's 16.7% chronic absenteeism rate. Batesville Primary School, which serves PK–2 and therefore has no state test scores, has 5.3% absenteeism and the lowest per-student spending at $9,750. Watch items include Batesville Intermediate School, which slipped from 4 stars and the 74th percentile in 2023–2024 to 3 stars and the 62nd percentile in 2025–2026, with English and science below district levels; Batesville Middle School's 7th-grade math at 29.24%, below the state's 35.9%; and Batesville High School's Biology EOC at 45.38%, down from 55.65%. Spending rises with grade level, from $9,750 at Primary to $12,136 at the High School.