Summary:
Laketon, Indiana is served by exactly one school — Manchester Intermediate School, a grades 4–6 middle school with 285 students — so this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison across a city. The school belongs to Manchester Community Schools, and the area summary lists 1 total school, 0 elementary, 1 middle, 0 high, and 0 alternative schools. Roughly 95 students per grade attend, with a 17.4 student-teacher ratio (about 16.4 teachers) and $8,969 in spending per student in 2023–2024. Nearly half the student body, 48.07%, qualifies for free or reduced lunch.
The strongest signal in the data is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 3.4% in 2024–2025, compared with 11.8% for the district and 16.7% statewide — 8.4 points below the district and 13.3 points below the state. Academically, the upper grades shine. Sixth grade math is 58.1% proficient, 17.9 percentage points above the state, and 6th grade science is 56.19%, 14.99 points above. Fifth grade social studies is 55.42% (8.22 points above state) in 2025–2026 and was 50% (11.5 points above) the prior year. Fifth and sixth grade ELA also beat the state, at 49.4% vs. 42.2% and 49.52% vs. 41.3%.
The clearest weak spot is 4th grade ELA at 30.43%, which is 11.77 points below the state and the lowest reported grade-level result here. Fourth grade math (49.57% vs. 52%) and 5th grade math (39.76% vs. 42%) sit slightly below state, as does 4th grade science (42.61% vs. 43.8%). All-grade results also declined year over year: ELA from 54.39 to 42.24, math from 52.63 to 49.83, and science from 56.04 to 49.09, while social studies rose from 50 to 55.42. Because these are all-grade aggregates covering different student cohorts, the drop should not be read as a simple school-quality change.
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