Summary:
Blackford County Schools includes exactly one high-school-level school, Blackford Junior-Senior High School, a combined junior-senior high in Hartford City, IN, serving grades 7–12 with 651 students. The district, Blackford County Schools, is ranked 134 of 374 Indiana districts, at the 64th percentile with 3 stars. Because there is only one high school in the district, parents should compare it against the district, the state, and its own year-over-year trend rather than against other local high schools.
The school has shown a notable up-and-down improvement in rankings: 2 stars and 37th percentile in 2023–24, 3 stars and 67th percentile in 2024–25, and 3 stars and 62nd percentile in 2025–26. Math is a clear strength. In 2025–26 ILEARN, All Grades Math proficiency was 48.37% versus the district’s 45.45%; 7th grade math was 48.74% versus the state’s 35.9%, and 8th grade math was 47.92% versus the state’s 34.2%. ELA is more mixed: All Grades ELA was 41.4% versus the district’s 32.31%, but 7th grade ELA was 41.18% versus the state’s 41.7%, and 8th grade ELA was 41.67% versus the state’s 44%.
Other outcomes are mostly favorable. In 2024–25, the graduation rate was 92.9%, above Indiana’s 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism was 14.4%, below the state’s 16.7% but slightly above the district’s 13.0%. Year over year, ILEARN ELA rose 2.9 points, Biology rose 5.93 points, and Math slipped 1.38 points. SAT results were mixed: the school exceeded the state in 2024–25 but fell just below the state in 2025–26, with EBRW down 7.71 points and Math down 4.13 points. Biology improved to 43.69% in 2025–26, though the state comparison was not listed. The school serves a high-poverty population, with 60.37% free/reduced lunch, and spent $12,333 per student in 2023–24, with a 15.6 student-teacher ratio.
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