Summary:
Montgomery, Indiana is home to two high-performing schools — Barr Reeve Elementary School, serving grades K–5 with 507 students, and Barr Reeve Middle/High School, serving grades 6–12 with 522 students — both part of the Barr-Reeve Community Schools Inc district, which enrolls about 1,029 students and ranks 15th of 374 Indiana districts (96th percentile, 5 stars).
Both schools post strong results. Barr Reeve Middle/High School ranked 18th of 415 high schools in 2025–2026 (96th percentile, 5 stars), after 20th of 429 and 8th of 432 in the two prior years. It reports a 100.0% graduation rate, versus 89.7% statewide, and chronic absenteeism of 3.6%, versus 16.7% statewide. SAT proficiency is far above state: 74.68% in Evidence-based Reading and Writing (state 51.9%) and 55.7% in Mathematics (state 25.6%), while Biology EOC proficiency was 62.67%, down from 69.12% a year earlier but well above the state's 45.6% that year.
The Barr Reeve Elementary School stands out for broad proficiency and improvement: it rose from 4 stars and 82nd percentile in 2024–2025 to 5 stars and 92nd percentile (79th of 1,015) in 2025–2026. All-grade proficiency is 61.16% in ELA, 69.83% in Math, and 66.67% in Science, and 5th-grade Social Studies reached 75.29% versus 47.2% statewide. Chronic absenteeism is 3.5%. Free/reduced lunch is 31.36% at the elementary versus 26.05% at the Middle/High School, with per-student spending of $11,944 and $12,750 respectively and student-teacher ratios of 13.7 and 14.5. Because the elementary's scores are higher, the Middle/High School's all-grade ILEARN figures trail the district blend, but at every listed grade level it beats the state in ELA, Math, and Science.
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