Summary:
Bryant, Indiana is a small community served by a single public school: Bloomfield Elementary School, an elementary school for grades K–6 with 279 students, part of the Jay School Corporation. Because there is only one school in the city, parents should judge it against its district and the state rather than against other Bryant schools.
The school's clearest strength is attendance: its chronic absenteeism rate was 5.5% in 2024–2025, far below the district's 19.0% and the state's 16.7%. Early grades also shine — in 2025–2026, 3rd-grade ELA proficiency was 63.41% (district 47.85%, state 40.8%) and 3rd-grade math was 68.29% (district 59.81%, state 51.9%). Across all grades, Bloomfield outperformed the district in ELA (45.34% vs. 39.8%) and math (44.1% vs. 43.01%), and 5th-grade ELA was 48.78%, above district and state. About 45.16% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio was a favorable 13.6, with per-student spending of $10,708 in 2023–2024.
There are warning signs worth watching. All-grade math fell sharply from 53.8% in 2024–2025 to 44.1% in 2025–2026, cutting its district advantage from about +10.9 points to +1.1 points. Science trails the district in both years, and 4th grade is below state in ELA (31.25% vs. 42.2%), math (35.42% vs. 52%), and science (33.33% vs. 43.8%), while 5th-grade math is 29.27%. Social studies slipped from a strength to 43.9%, below district and state. The school's state rank moved from 324 of 1,011 in 2023–2024 to 490 of 1,015 in 2025–2026 — from the 68th to the 52nd percentile — though it kept a 3-star rating. With only 279 students, grade-level swings can be large, so multi-year trends matter more than any single year.
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