Summary:
Bicknell, Indiana, a small city in Knox County, is served by just two schools — North Knox Primary School for grades K–2 and North Knox Junior-Senior High School for grades 7–12 — both part of the North Knox School Corp, which enrolls about 788 students and ranks 254th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars.
The two schools present a mixed picture. The junior-senior high posts a strong 97.3% graduation rate, 7.6 points above the state's 89.7%, yet its test proficiency trails the state in every comparable area, with math especially weak: 7th-grade math is 21.05% vs. the state's 35.9%, 8th-grade math is 18.09% vs. 34.2%, and SAT math is 14.71% vs. 25.6%. ELA is also below state — 7th grade at 29.47% vs. 41.7% and 8th grade at 34.74% vs. 44.0%. Attendance splits sharply: the primary's chronic absenteeism is 14.5%, below the district's 19.6% and the state's 16.7%, while the high school's is 23.8%, a 9.3-point gap between the two schools.
The primary also shows more favorable staffing and spending: $12,309 per student vs. $11,572, and a 13.0 student-teacher ratio vs. 15.4, while serving a higher free/reduced-lunch share (64.78% vs. 56.93%). Its rank history is very old — 408th of 1,003 with 3 stars in 2008–2009 — and does not describe its current standing. The high school's rank has slipped from the 41st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 32nd percentile in 2025–2026, still holding 2 stars. No high school test values are suppressed; the primary simply has no test records, most likely because grades K–2 fall outside ILEARN/SAT testing, which is not the same as zero proficiency. Note, too, that grades 3–6 are not represented by a Bicknell city school in this data.
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