Summary:
Cloverdale Community Schools serves students from prekindergarten through 12th grade across four schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — and is ranked 200th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 47th percentile with a 2-star district rating. Enrollment is strikingly uneven: Cloverdale Distance Learning Academy, a K–8 elementary, reports 1,986 students, about 65.6% of the combined enrollment, compared with 445 at Cloverdale Elementary School (PK–4), 301 at Cloverdale High School (9–12), and 297 at Cloverdale Middle School (5–8). Notably, three of the four schools earned 3 stars in 2025-2026 even though the district is rated 2 stars.
Each brick-and-mortar school has a distinct strength. Cloverdale Elementary is the math leader, with 54.88% all-grades math proficiency in 2025-2026 versus the district's 34.57%, and 3rd-grade math at 61.54% against the state's 51.9%. Cloverdale Middle's standout is science, at 57.14% in 2024-2025 and above the state in 6th-grade science (43.42% vs. 41.2%) and 7th-grade ELA (45.71% vs. 41.7%). Cloverdale High posts a 98.3% graduation rate, well above the state's 89.7%. The Distance Learning Academy is academically lower overall (25.25% ELA, 32.69% math in 2025-2026) but scores above the state in 5th-grade social studies (50.65% vs. 47.2%) and 6th-grade science (44.38% vs. 41.2%).
Areas to watch: chronic absenteeism is 22.2% at the middle school, 21.3% at the high school, and 14.0% at the elementary school, while the district figure of 5.9% is pulled down by the Distance Learning Academy's 0.0%. Eighth-grade math at the middle school is 16.13% against the state's 34.2%. The high school's SAT results were above state in 2024-2025 but below state in 2025-2026, a sharp swing. Per-student spending ranges from $6,427 at the Distance Learning Academy to $14,764 at the high school, and free/reduced lunch is highest at the middle school (67.68%).
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