Summary:
There is one middle school in the Eastern Howard School Corporation: Eastern Middle School in Greentown, Indiana, serving grades 6–8 with 379 students. Because it is the district's only middle school, its grade-level results in grades 6–8 are also the district's grade-level results for those grades. The school has a 17.7-to-1 student-teacher ratio, about 41.95% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and per-student spending of $7,540. Chronic absenteeism is 11.6%, which is below the state rate of 16.7% and only slightly above the district rate of 10.5% — a relative bright spot.
Academically, the picture is mixed. Math is strong in the earlier grades: 6th grade math proficiency is 47.86% against a state average of 40.2%, and 7th grade math is 45.59% against 35.9%. In English language arts, proficiency climbs steadily by grade — 34.19% in 6th, 40.44% in 7th and 48.82% in 8th, which is 4.82 points above the state's 44%. Sixth grade science is 42.24%, slightly above the state figure of 41.2%. Notably, science appears to be assessed only in 6th grade here, since the school's all-grades and 6th grade science results are identical.
The clearest concern is 8th grade math, where proficiency falls to 29.13%, below the state's 34.2% and nearly 19 points below the school's own 6th grade math result. Year over year, math improved (38.54% to 40.79%), while ELA slipped (43.94% to 41.32%) and science fell from 47.15% to 42.24%. The school's state ranking also drifted, from 72nd percentile with 4 stars in 2023–2024 to 65th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026 (169th of 486), 10 points below the district's 75th percentile and 4 stars. Overall, a school with real strengths and one major academic red flag.
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