Summary:
Milroy, Indiana is served by just one school: Milroy Elementary School, an elementary school serving grades K–6 with 165 students, part of Rush County Schools. The district is ranked 214th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 43rd percentile with 2 stars, while the school itself ranks 465th of 1,015 schools in 2025–2026, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars — up from 49th percentile and 2 stars in 2024–2025, though still below its 58th-percentile showing in 2023–2024.
The school's clearest strength is math. All-grade math proficiency was 55.95%, well above the district's 34.2%, with 3rd grade at 75.86% (state: 51.9%) and 4th grade at 66.67% (state: 52%). Attendance is another standout: chronic absenteeism was 7.5% in 2024–2025, compared with 14.3% in the district and 16.7% statewide, even though 57.58% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch. Class sizes are small, with a student-teacher ratio of 9.3 in 2024–2025 and per-student spending of $13,902 in 2023–2024.
The picture is more mixed in English Language Arts and in the upper grades. All-grade ELA was 34.52% versus the district's 30.61%, but grade-level results fall steadily: 48.28% in 3rd grade (state: 40.8%), 33.33% in 4th, 25% in 5th, and 22.22% in 6th, which is 19.08 points below the state's 41.3%. Fifth-grade math was 25%, below both the district's 27.97% and the state's 42%. Science slipped from 47.22% to 41.03% year over year, and 5th-grade social studies improved to 37.5% but remains below the state's 47.2%. With only 165 students, a few students can shift these rates substantially, so grade-level swings should be read with that small-school context in mind.
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