Summary:
The North Central Parke Community School Corp district in Indiana is home to a single high school, Parke Heritage High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school's performance has shown some fluctuations in recent years, with its statewide ranking ranging from 168 to 211 out of 398-431 Indiana high schools and its SchoolDigger rating varying between 2 and 3 stars out of 5.
Parke Heritage High School's four-year graduation rate for the 2023-2024 school year was a respectable 88.4%, but its chronic absenteeism rate for the same year was relatively high at 17.8%. Academically, the school's performance on the ILEARN/Biology and SAT/Evidence-based Reading and Writing assessments matched the district average, with 45.88% and 47.14% of students, respectively, being proficient or better. However, the school's performance on the SAT/Mathematics assessment was significantly lower, with only 20% of students being proficient or better.
The school's student population faces some socioeconomic challenges, with 54.49% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch. However, the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 7.9 and a high per-student spending of $18,750, suggesting that it may have access to significant resources that could be leveraged to address the areas of concern identified in the data.
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