Summary:
Plainfield, Indiana is served by Plainfield Community School Corp, a highly rated district with seven schools—four elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and one small alternative school—educating about 5,273 students in a suburban community just west of Indianapolis.
The district ranks 22nd of 374 Indiana districts, in the 94th percentile with 5 stars, placing it in the top 6% statewide. The academic anchors are Plainfield High School and Plainfield Community Middle School, both 5-star schools ranked in the top decile. The high school has a 96.0% graduation rate versus the state's 89.7%, with SAT proficiency of 69.18% in reading and writing and 43.24% in math, well above state rates. The middle school has low chronic absenteeism at 9.0% and a Biology End of Course result of 98.97%, though that extreme figure likely reflects a small or selective testing group rather than a typical science outcome. Among elementaries, Van Buren Elementary School (89th percentile) and Brentwood Elementary School (88th percentile) lead in math, and Central Elementary School is the most balanced with the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 7.9%. Clarks Creek Elementary improved from 2 stars to 4 stars but still trails district averages.
Chronic absenteeism across regular schools averages about 10.2%, below the district's 11.7% and the state's 16.7%. Notably, Brentwood posts strong outcomes despite a 52.14% free/reduced-lunch rate, showing poverty indicators do not fully determine results. Pride Academy, with only 12 students, is not comparable to the regular schools. Overall, Plainfield offers families strong, consistently high-performing schools.
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