Summary:
Anderson High School is the only public high school serving grades 9–12 in Anderson Community School Corp, so it is the district's entire high school footprint — all 1,768 students attend this one building at 4610 Madison Ave in Anderson. About 62% of students (61.99%) qualify for free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 14.3 to 1 (roughly 124 teachers), and per-student spending is $14,539. Because there is only one school here, there is no in-district peer comparison — the useful comparisons are the school against its own prior years and against Indiana averages.
Academically, results are low but improving in two subjects. SAT Math proficiency nearly doubled from 5.64% to 10.96%, while the state figure stayed essentially flat around 25% — genuine progress, though the school still sits at roughly 43% of the state rate. Biology rose from 12.38% to 14.69%, but remains below the district's 22.68% and far below the state's 45.6%. SAT Reading and Writing slipped slightly (30.51% to 28.88%); since state scores fell too, the gap to the state stayed about the same, narrowing only from roughly 24 points to 23. In 2025-2026 the school edged slightly above the district in both SAT subjects. Its state ranking improved from the 13th to the 17th percentile over three years, still in the bottom fifth of Indiana high schools at 1 star.
The biggest concerns are attendance and graduation. Chronic absenteeism is 38.0% — more than double Indiana's 16.7% and 7.1 points above the district's 30.9%, meaning more than a third of students miss school chronically. The graduation rate is 81.6%, about 8 points below the state's 89.7%. These gaps are wider than the ranking trajectory alone suggests, making attendance and on-time graduation the most important areas for families to watch.
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