Argos Community Schools

Argos Community Schools is a small northern Indiana district serving about 639 students in two schools — Argos Community Elementary for grades PK–5 and Argos Community Junior-Senior High School for grades 6–12 — with no standalone middle school. The district is ranked 235th of 374 in Indiana, at the 37th percentile, with 2 stars, so families should expect a middle-to-lower-middle profile statewide rather than a top-ranked district.

Each school has its own bright spots. The elementary school is the stronger performer in math: all-grade math proficiency came in at 44.22%, well above the district's 36.46%, and both 5th grade math (45.1% vs. state 42.0%) and 5th grade social studies (52.94% vs. state 47.2%) were above the state. The junior-senior high school stands out for completion and attendance — a 100.0% graduation rate compared with the state's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism of 10.2% against the state's 16.7%. Science is a relative strength on both campuses, though the high school's Biology EOC fell from 61.11% to 21.43%, a large swing worth monitoring.

The clearest shared weakness is English language arts. All-grade ELA proficiency was 25.53% at the high school and 27.7% at the elementary school, and every reported grade-level ELA result fell below the state — elementary 3rd grade by 17.72 points and high school 7th grade by 22.83 points. The high school's state rank has slipped from the 67th percentile with 3 stars to the 41st percentile with 2 stars, while the elementary school has held steady near the 42nd–44th percentile. Both schools keep absenteeism well below the state's 16.7% and serve high shares of students on free/reduced lunch (56.11% elementary, 50.94% high school).