Summary:
Otterbein, Indiana has just one public school in this data set — Otterbein Elementary School, a K–6 campus with 245 students in the Benton Community School Corp — so families here are choosing among a single local option before students move on to middle and high school outside the city.
The school's clearest strengths are math and attendance. All-grades math proficiency was 52.03% in 2025–26, well above the district's 39.2%, with grade 3 at 69.7% and grade 4 at 61.54% — 17.8 and 9.54 points above the state, respectively. Chronic absenteeism was just 6.8% in 2024–25, less than half the state's 16.7% and well below the district's 12.2%. The school ranked 409 of 1,015 schools (60th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26, after 54th percentile in 2023–24 and 62nd in 2024–25, holding a 3-star rating all three years. Staffing is favorable, with a student-teacher ratio of 11.2, and per-student spending was $15,714 in 2023–24. Fifth-grade social studies also stood out at 55.26% proficient, above both the district (48.11%) and state (47.2%), though it jumped from 29.03% the prior year and may reflect cohort differences.
ELA is the relative weak spot. Although all-grades ELA (37.16%) beat the district (29.47%), grade-level results trailed the state in grades 4, 5, and 6 — grade 5 ELA was lowest at 26.32%, 15.88 points below the state. Science was mixed: grade 4 reached 48.72% (above district and state), while grade 6 was 34.21%, above the district but about 7 points below the state. ELA, math, and science all dipped slightly from 2024–25 to 2025–26. With 48.57% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, the school produces above-district results across all reported subjects, but remains above average rather than elite.
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