Eminence Community School Corp

Eminence Community School Corp is a small Indiana district serving about 259 students across two schools: Eminence Elementary School for grades PK–5 (111 students) and Eminence Junior-Senior High School for grades 6–12 (148 students), which means middle-school grades are housed in the junior-senior high building. The district itself ranks 280 of 374 in Indiana, at the 25th percentile with 1 star, so both schools sit below the state median, though they perform very differently from each other.

Eminence Elementary School is the higher-rated of the two, at 672 of 1015 (34th percentile) with 2 stars, a rating it has held for three years. Its standout strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 8.9%, well below the district's 21.5% and the state's 16.7%. Math proficiency is 39.34% and science is 44.44%, both above district averages, with 4th grade science at 44.44% slightly above the state's 43.8%. The concern is reading: ELA fell from 39.66% to 18.03% in one year, and 5th grade ELA sits at 5% and 3rd grade at 14.29%, compared with state rates of 42.2% and 40.8%. The school's rank also slipped from the 49th to the 34th percentile.

Eminence Junior-Senior High School ranks 346 of 415 (17th percentile) with 1 star. Its biggest challenges are absenteeism at 31.1% — nearly 3.5 times the elementary rate — a graduation rate of 84.6% versus the state's 89.7%, and math, where ILEARN all-grade proficiency is 20.27% and SAT Math was 0% proficient in both years. There are positive signs: ELA rose from 24.59% to 31.08%, and SAT reading and writing improved from 15% to 37.5%, with a low student-teacher ratio of 8.7. Because enrollment is small, single-year percentages can swing widely and are best read alongside cohort size.