Summary:
Beech Grove, Indiana is served by Beech Grove City Schools, a district rated 306th of 374 Indiana districts (18th percentile, 1 star) that educates 2,790 students across five public schools — three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The elementary pathway runs from Hornet Park Elementary School (PK–1) through Central Intermediate School and South Grove Elementary School (grades 2–6), then Beech Grove Middle School (7–8), and finally Beech Grove Senior High School (9–12), the largest school in the city with 914 students — nearly one-third of all enrollment.
Despite the district's low overall rating, schools differ sharply. Beech Grove Middle is the current standout: ranked 239 of 486 (51st percentile) with 3 stars, the only 3-star school in the city, and its all-grade ILEARN proficiency in both ELA (33.33%) and math (33.00%) is far above the district's roughly 17.7% in each subject. South Grove is a high-poverty, low-spending overperformer — the highest free/reduced lunch rate (57.85%) and lowest per-student spending ($9,888), yet the strongest all-grade ILEARN results among elementary and middle schools. The high school has improved three straight years, from the 21st to the 38th percentile, and graduates 90.5% of students, above the state's 89.7%. Hornet Park stands out for the best attendance in the city at 13.1%, the only Beech Grove school below the state's 16.7%. Central Intermediate remains at the 26th percentile with 1 star.
Absenteeism is the clearest dividing line: it climbs from 13.1% at Hornet Park to 30.3% at the middle school and 31.9% at the high school, both well above the district's 24.3% and the state's 16.7%. Math and science gaps to the state generally run larger than ELA gaps, and spending and class size do not track neatly with outcomes. Families should also note that some listed grade spans don't fully match the test-score rows reported for those schools.
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