Best Public Schools in Nappanee, IN

Nappanee, Indiana has three listed public schools — all part of Wa-Nee Community Schools — serving grades K–5 at Woodview Elementary School and Nappanee Elementary School, and grades 9–12 at North Wood High School, with no middle or alternative schools in this city list and 1,661 students enrolled overall.

The district context is strong: Wa-Nee ranks 17th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 95th percentile with 5 stars, and every Nappanee school sits at or above the 80th percentile in its statewide ranking. North Wood High School is the academic capstone — ranked 40th of 415 high schools with 5 stars, a 98.5% graduation rate against the state's 89.7%, SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing of 72.14 versus 51.9, and SAT Math of 41.79 versus 25.6. Its watch item is attendance: 17.4% chronic absenteeism, higher than both the district's 11.2% and the state's 16.7%.

At the elementary level the two schools have complementary strengths. Woodview Elementary School has the city's lowest chronic absenteeism at 7.4% — less than half the state's 16.7% — and leads in ELA (64.81) and science (57.58), with 5th grade social studies (42.42) its weakest subject. Nappanee Elementary School leads in math (70.92, above the district's 69.73) and has the smallest classes at 13.2 students per teacher, along with a 5th grade social studies jump from 23.08 to 50.77; its science lags at 40.58. Both elementaries declined in science year over year, making science the shared improvement area.