Summary:
Hamilton, Indiana has just one high school: Hamilton Community High School, a small grades 6–12 school serving 183 students in Hamilton Community Schools. Because it spans middle and high school grades, its reported results include middle-school testing alongside high-school measures like Biology End of Course and the SAT. There is no other local high school to compare it against, so this school defines the area's high-school picture, and its profile is mixed rather than uniformly strong or weak.
Its clearest strengths are in science, graduation, and attendance. Biology End of Course proficiency rose to 76.19% in 2025-2026 from 40.00% the year before, and 6th grade Science is 44.83%, above the state's 41.2%. The graduation rate is 92.0%, above the state's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 14.5%, better than the state's 16.7% but worse than the district's 10.0%. Resources are relatively favorable: $19,853 spent per student in 2023-2024 and a student-teacher ratio of 8.5. Nearly half of students, 49.18%, qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Math is the clearest weakness. All-grade ILEARN Math is 21.69% versus the district's 39.13%, and SAT Math is 9.09% against the state's 25.6%. ELA also trails benchmarks: all-grade ILEARN ELA is 31.33% versus the district's 35.27%, grade-level ELA sits around 30–32% while state results range from 41.3% to 44.0%, and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing is 27.27% compared with the state's 51.9%. Rankings have been volatile — 2 stars in 2025-2026, up from 1 star, but below the 3-star, 51st-percentile showing in 2023-2024. State comparisons for all-grade ILEARN are not reported, and with only 183 students, percentages can swing sharply from year to year.
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