Best Public Schools in Medora, IN

Medora, Indiana is a small community served by two public schools in the Medora Community School Corp district: Medora Junior & Senior High School, which covers grades 6–12 with about 95 students, and Medora STEM Academy, which serves grades PK–5 with roughly 90 students, for a combined enrollment of about 185. There are no standalone middle or alternative schools, and middle grades are housed in the junior/senior high. The district ranks 340 of 374 in Indiana, placing it in the 9th percentile with 0 stars.

Comparing the two schools, the high school's brightest metric is its 2024–25 graduation rate of 100%, which beats the state's 89.7%. Yet SAT Math proficiency was 0% in both 2024–25 and 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 39.3% (more than double the state's 16.7%), and its 2025–26 rank was 351 of 415, the 15th percentile with 1 star. The elementary school's story is a steep decline: it fell from 2 stars and the 46th percentile in 2024–25 to 0 stars and the 9th percentile in 2025–26, with math dropping from 50% to 20% and ELA from 32.35% to 17.5%. Its chronic absenteeism, 23.8%, is also above the state rate.

Both schools serve high-poverty populations, with free/reduced lunch at 67.37% for the high school and 75.56% for the elementary. Resources differ: the high school spends $14,327 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 6.5, versus $11,463 and 13.8 at the elementary. Small enrollments mean a few students can swing percentages sharply. Relative bright spots: the high school's all-grades ELA was 20%, above the district's 18.75%; the elementary's math was 20% and science 16.67%, above the district's 16.25% and 14.29%; and 5th grade Social Studies was 40% in 2024–25, above the state's 38.5%.