Summary:
Decatur, Indiana is served by three public schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — all part of the North Adams Community Schools district, with no alternative school in the city and roughly 1,571 students enrolled across them. The district ranks 100 of 374 in Indiana, placing it at the 73rd percentile with a 4-star rating, though the individual schools differ noticeably from one another.
Bellmont Senior High School is the strongest school in the area. It ranks 57 of 415 statewide (86th percentile) with 4 stars, and has held steady at 86–87th percentile over three years. Its graduation rate is 92.6%, above Indiana's 89.7%, and its SAT results beat the state in both Evidence-based Reading and Writing (58% vs. 51.9%) and Mathematics (36.67% vs. 25.6%). Bellmont Elementary is the most improved: its percentile rose from 41 to 46 to 51 and its rating moved from 2 stars to 3. Math is a strength there — 49.65% across all grades and 59.14% in 3rd grade, above the state's 51.9% — and it has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 12.6%, below the state's 16.7%.
Bellmont Middle School sits in the middle at the 61st percentile and 3 stars, with 7th-grade ELA a bright spot at 53.68% against the state's 41.7%. Math is the clearest concern: all-grades math is 33.33%, and 6th-grade math is 31.58% versus the state's 40.2%, with math also slipping year over year. Free/reduced lunch rates fall from 54.82% at the elementary to 32.46% at the high school, and all three schools keep chronic absenteeism below the state rate.
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