Best Middle Schools in Decatur, IN

Decatur, Indiana is home to exactly one middle school: Bellmont Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 as part of North Adams Community Schools. It enrolls 274 students and reports a student-teacher ratio of 12.1, a free/reduced-lunch rate of 47.45%, and per-student spending of $12,874. Because there is only one middle school in the city, there are no citywide comparisons to make; the useful benchmarks are the school against its district, against Indiana state figures, and against its own prior years.

The school's clearest strengths are in English language arts and attendance. Seventh grade ELA proficiency is 53.68%, roughly 12 points above Indiana's 41.7%, and all-grades ELA rose from 41.67% to 44.20% year over year while staying ahead of the district's 40.57%. Chronic absenteeism is 14.2%, below the state's 16.7%, though slightly above the district's 13.5%. Bellmont Middle School has held a 3-star rating in each of the last three reported years, with its percentile moving from 59 to 65 and then to 61 in 2025–2026.

Math is the area to watch most closely. All-grades math proficiency dropped from 38.64% to 33.33% in a single year, while the district's math figure rose from 38.57% to 41.64%, leaving the school 8.31 points behind. Sixth and eighth grade math also trail state levels. Sixth grade science sits at 35.79% against Indiana's 41.2%, and all-grades science has stayed essentially flat. One further note: the district as a whole is rated 4 stars at the 73rd percentile, while the middle school is rated 3 stars at the 61st percentile — a difference that may reflect other schools in the district rather than a middle-school-specific gap.