Summary:
Winchester, Indiana has four public schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — all part of the Randolph Central School Corp district, forming a PK–12 feeder pattern with 1,250 students total.
The district is ranked 189 of 374 statewide (49th percentile, 3 stars), but each individual Winchester school currently sits at 2 stars and between the 36th and 45th percentile. Willard Elementary School (grades 3–5) posts the standout number in the entire data set: chronic absenteeism of just 6.1%, compared with 16.0% for the district and 16.7% for the state — and that comes despite Willard having the highest free/reduced-lunch rate (55.17%) and the highest student-teacher ratio (13.6) of the four schools. Winchester Community High School (9–12) has the opposite attendance profile, with chronic absenteeism of 21.6%, and it also spends the most per student ($14,003). Its clearest strength is a 95.5% graduation rate versus 89.7% for the state, though SAT Reading (44.94), SAT Math (19.1), and Biology (30.4) all trail state averages; SAT Math did jump from 8.91 to 19.1 in one year.
Lee L Driver Middle School (6–8) is the most improved on rank, moving from the 38th to the 45th percentile over two years, with ELA rising to 32.12 and Science to 39.13 — above the district's 36.81. Math is its weak point, falling from 33.33 to 29.47 and well below the district's 37.56, with 6th-grade ELA at 21.74 against a state mark of 41.3. Absenteeism there is 15.9%, slightly better than district and state. O R Baker Elementary School (PK–2) has no test or rank data by design, but shows the lowest poverty rate (30.03%) and lowest spending ($8,968) alongside high chronic absenteeism of 20.6%.
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