Summary:
Princeton, Indiana is home to four public schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving roughly 1,864 students in a complete K–12 pipeline, all within the North Gibson School Corporation, which ranks 259th out of 374 Indiana districts at the 31st percentile with 2 stars. The Princeton Community High School is the largest at 580 students, while the middle, intermediate, and primary schools are close in size at 437, 430, and 417.
Princeton Community High School stands out for completion and attendance: a 95.1% graduation rate, above the state's 89.7%, and 10.2% chronic absenteeism, well below the district's 16.8% and the state's 16.7%. Its SAT Math and Biology ILEARN results, however, fall well below state comparisons, and its rank slipped from 50th percentile / 3 stars in 2023–24 to 33rd percentile / 2 stars in 2025–26. Princeton Community Middle shows the opposite attendance picture — 24.8% chronic absenteeism, about 8 percentage points above both district and state — and very low 7th-grade ELA (21.01 vs state 41.7) and 7th-grade math (15.22 vs state 35.9). Still, its ELA and science scores improved year over year and its rank rose from 29th percentile / 1 star to 36th percentile / 2 stars.
Princeton Community Intermediate School is a bright spot in math: all-grade math scores 39.43, 8.42 percentage points above the district, with 5th-grade math (42.74) slightly above the state's 42 — despite having the city's highest free/reduced lunch rate (57.44%), the largest classes (17.2 students per teacher), and the lowest per-student spending ($11,537). Princeton Community Primary School, serving K–2, has no state test scores in this data but the smallest classes at 10.6 students per teacher. Notably, the high school has the lowest poverty rate and the highest spending ($14,316), while the intermediate school has the highest poverty and lowest spending.
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