Summary:
There is one high school in the DeKalb County Eastern Com School District in Indiana: Eastside Junior-Senior High School in Butler, which serves grades 7–12 with 559 students. Because it is the only high school in the district, there is no side-by-side comparison with another local high school; the most useful comparisons are between this school and its district and the state of Indiana. The school's district ranking is 157 of 374, placing it in the 58th percentile with 3 stars.
Eastside's clearest strength is graduation: 98.8% in 2024–2025, matching the district and well above Indiana's 89.7%. On ILEARN, the school outperforms its district in both English Language Arts and Math, and its middle-grade math results beat the state — 7th-grade math at 43.68% vs the state's 35.9%, and 8th-grade math at 43.33% vs 34.2%. Eighth-grade ELA is also strong at 51.11%, above both the district's 47.92% and the state's 44%. Biology End-of-Course results rose sharply to 60.92% in 2025–2026 from 46.88% the prior year, the latter above the state's 45.6%. The school earned 3 stars in each of the last two years after 2 stars in 2023–2024, and remains above the 50th percentile statewide.
Areas to monitor include attendance and SAT performance. Chronic absenteeism is 19.3%, higher than the district's 14.6% and the state's 16.7%. In 2025–2026, SAT ELA fell to 38.04% vs the state's 51.9%, and SAT Math to 18.48% vs 25.6% — a reversal from 2024–2025, when SAT Math was 29.03%. Meanwhile, all-grade ILEARN ELA, Math, and Biology all improved year over year, so the two assessments are moving in opposite directions. Seventh-grade ELA, at 36.78%, trails the state's 41.7%. Context: 45.08% of students receive free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 12.7 to 1, and per-student spending was $16,173 in 2023–2024.
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