Summary:
South Central Junior-Senior High School is the only high school in South Central Com School Corp, serving grades 7–12 to 463 students in Union Mills, Indiana. The broader district is rated 4 stars, ranking 86 of 374 (77th percentile), while the school itself earned 3 stars in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, up from 2 stars in 2023–2024. Per-student spending is $12,129, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.8.
Strengths show up most clearly in completion, attendance, reading, and science. The graduation rate is 95.7% versus 89.7% statewide, and chronic absenteeism is 12.9% — better than the state's 16.7%, though above the district's 10.0%. Biology End of Course performance reached 63.64% in 2025–2026 and 50% in 2024–2025, when the state was 45.6%. Seventh-grade ILEARN results beat state marks: 52.5% in ELA against 41.7%, and 42.5% in math against 35.9%. Eighth-grade ELA was essentially at state (44.59% vs. 44%), and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing stood at 66.27% in 2024–2025 against 54.5% statewide.
Math is the persistent weak spot. SAT Math came in at 7.25% in 2025–2026 and 12.05% in 2024–2025, versus 25.6% and 25.4% at state level. All-grades ILEARN math was 37.66% against the district's 55.38% in 2025–2026, and 8th-grade math was 32.43% versus 34.2% statewide. SAT ELA also fell sharply, from 66.27% to 47.83%, below the state's 51.9%. Rank history moved from 265 of 432 (2 stars) to 161 of 429 (3 stars), then 186 of 415 (3 stars) — still better than 2023–2024, but weaker than 2024–2025.
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