Edinburgh Community School Corp

Edinburgh Community School Corp is a three-school Indiana district serving students from prekindergarten through 12th grade: East Side Elementary School (PK–5, 382 students), Edinburgh Community Middle School (6–8, 179 students), and Edinburgh Community High School (9–12, 232 students), for a total listed enrollment of 793. The district is rated 252nd of 374 Indiana districts — the 33rd percentile, with 2 stars — and that rating applies to the district as a whole rather than to any single school.

Among the three, Edinburgh Community High School holds the strongest overall position: a rank of 220 of 415, the 47th percentile, improving from the 43rd to the 46th to the 47th percentile over three years, with the best graduation rate at 96.3% versus Indiana's 89.7%. Its SAT Math (26.47%) is above the state's 25.6%, but SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing (47.06%) is below the state's 51.9%. Edinburgh Community Middle School has the lowest chronic absenteeism (17.4%, close to the state's 16.7%) and the smallest classes (12.7 students per teacher), and its 8th-grade Math (37.25%) beats the state's 34.2% — yet 7th-grade ELA is just 15% against 41.7% statewide. East Side Elementary School is the largest school and faces the biggest challenges: the highest chronic absenteeism (29.8%), the highest free/reduced lunch rate (61.52%), the lowest per-student spending ($9,618), and the lowest rank (27th percentile, 1 star).

Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide concern at 25.2%, well above the state's 16.7%. The clearest academic warning signs are early literacy — 4th-grade ELA at 18.6% and 5th-grade ELA at 20.34%, against state rates above 42% — and middle school 7th-grade ELA. Per-student spending rises with grade level ($9,618, then $12,267, then $13,327) while free/reduced lunch rates fall, meaning the elementary school serves the highest-need students with the lowest per-pupil funding.