Summary:
Fillmore, Indiana is a small community served by just one public school — Fillmore Elementary School — an elementary campus serving PK–5 with 148 students in the South Putnam Community Schools district; the city has no middle, high, or alternative school in this data set, so secondary students are not represented here.
For parents, the headline is that this school performs well above both its district and the state. In 2025–2026 it ranked 77th of 1,015 Indiana schools — about the top 8% statewide — with a 5-star rating, up from 125th of 1,011 and 4 stars in 2023–2024. The district is also strong at 56th of 374 districts (85th percentile, 4 stars), but the school's own results are higher still. Math, science, and social studies are the standout areas: all-grade math proficiency was 73.08% versus the district's 54.27%, and science was 80.00% versus 52.76%. At the grade level, 4th-grade math reached 85% against a state mark of 52%, 4th-grade science 80% against 43.8%, and 5th-grade social studies 80% against 47.2%. ELA is more mixed — all-grade ELA was 57.69% versus the district's 46.58%, and 4th- and 5th-grade ELA clearly exceeded the state, but 3rd-grade ELA was 41.67%, below the district's 49.30% and only slightly above the state's 40.80%.
Other indicators are favorable. Chronic absenteeism was 8.6%, roughly half the state's 16.7% and below the district's 10.4%. About 39.86% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending was $13,888 in 2023–2024, and the student-to-teacher ratio was 10.9:1. Results also improved year over year: all-grade ELA rose from 56.90% to 57.69%, math from 68.97% to 73.08%, science from 73.68% to 80.00%, and 5th-grade social studies from 70% to 80%. Because grade levels are small, single-grade percentages should be read as directional rather than definitive.
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