Summary:
Medora Community School Corp is a very small Indiana district serving 185 students across two schools in Medora, IN: Medora STEM Academy for grades PK–5 (90 students) and Medora Junior & Senior High School for grades 6–12 (95 students). The district ranks 340 of 374 Indiana districts, placing it in the 9th percentile with 0 stars.
The two schools differ in important ways. The high school reports a 100% graduation rate in 2024–2025, above the state's 89.7%, and a very low student-teacher ratio of 6.5, with per-student spending of $14,327. Yet its chronic absenteeism is 39.3%, more than double the state's 16.7%, and SAT math proficiency was 0% in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Medora STEM Academy spends less per student ($11,463) and has larger classes (ratio 13.8), with lower chronic absenteeism of 23.8% — still above the state. Its rank fell sharply from 46th percentile and 2 stars in 2024–2025 to 9th percentile and 0 stars in 2025–2026, with All Grades ILEARN math proficiency dropping from 50% to 20% and ELA from 32.35% to 17.5%.
Both schools serve high-poverty populations: free/reduced lunch is 75.56% at the elementary school and 67.37% at the high school. District-wide, All Grades proficiency in 2025–2026 was 18.75% in ELA, 16.25% in math, and 14.29% in science. Grade-level results sit far below state benchmarks — for example, 3rd-grade ELA at 5% (state 40.8%) and 8th-grade math at 15.38% (state 34.2%). The one school-level result above state in this data is 2024–2025 5th-grade Social Studies at 40% (state 38.5%). With only 185 students, year-to-year swings can be large, but the most recent data shows low proficiency and high absenteeism.
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