Central Noble Com School Corp

Central Noble Com School Corp is a small Indiana district serving roughly 1,095 students across three schools — two elementary schools (grades K–1 and 2–4) and one combined junior/senior high school that covers grades 5–12, so fifth grade is housed in the high school building rather than a standalone middle school. The district ranks 225th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 40th percentile with 2 stars, and includes Central Noble Primary School (238 students), Central Noble Elementary School (247 students), and Central Noble Junior Senior High School (610 students).

The clearest academic bright spot is Central Noble Elementary School, where all-grades math proficiency reached 52.8% in 2025–26 — well above the district's 37.07% and a 16-point jump over its own prior year. Third-grade math matches the state exactly and fourth-grade math is slightly above it, and this comes despite the school having the district's highest free/reduced lunch rate (50.61%). Central Noble Junior Senior High School stands out for attendance and completion: chronic absenteeism is 6.4% and the graduation rate is 94.9%, both far better than the state (16.7% and 89.7%). Biology End-of-Course proficiency also rose sharply, from 40% to 53.33%. Central Noble Primary School has no current test scores because it serves K–1, but posts the lowest poverty rate (38.24%) and lowest spending ($12,047).

Reading and writing is the district's broadest weakness. At the junior/senior high, grades 5–8 ELA all fall below state, and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing is 42.22% versus the state's 51.9%. Elementary ELA is also below state in grades 3 and 4, though it edged up slightly year over year. Secondary math is the other urgent concern: all-grades math fell 12.32 points to 29.59% at the high school, and SAT Math is just 12.22% against the state's 25.6%. Notably, poverty and spending don't map neatly onto results — the highest-poverty elementary has the strongest math, while the highest-spending, largest school has the weakest. Attendance, meanwhile, is a genuine district-wide strength.