Summary:
C A Beard Memorial School Corp contains exactly one middle school, Knightstown Intermediate School, which serves grades 4–8 and enrolls 387 students at 1 Panther Trl in Knightstown, Indiana. With only one middle school in the district, there is no peer school to compare against locally, so state averages are the most useful benchmark. The district overall ranks 205th of 374 in Indiana, in the 45th percentile with 2 stars.
The school's strongest signal is recent improvement. Its 2025–26 rank rose to 221st of 486 — the 55th percentile with 3 stars — up from 294th of 480 (39th percentile, 2 stars) the prior year. All-grade ELA climbed 9.66 points to 40.21%, moving above the district's 39.47%, and 5th-grade ELA sits slightly above the state. Math is the clear priority: all-grade math is 35.39%, below the district's 38.46%, and proficiency slides steadily by grade — 46.75% in 4th, 42.68% in 5th, 34.88% in 6th, 25% in 7th, and just 23.44% in 8th. Those 7th- and 8th-grade math gaps versus state are the largest in the data, about 11 points below.
Science is mixed: 4th-grade and 6th-grade science exceed state averages, but all-grade science dropped 6.82 points to 44.17%. Fifth-grade social studies improved to 45.12% yet slipped slightly below state. Chronic absenteeism is 17.4%, close to the state's 16.7% and below the district's 17.8%. With 37.47% free/reduced lunch, $11,568 per-student spending, and a 13.9:1 student-teacher ratio, the resource picture is contextual rather than clearly strong or weak. Keep in mind the 4–8 grade span, which means results reflect the elementary-to-middle transition as well as middle-grade performance.
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