Summary:
Community Schools of Frankfort operates exactly one high school — Frankfort High School, serving grades 9–12 at 1 S Maish Rd in Frankfort, Indiana, with 922 students. Because the district has only one high school, the school's graduation rate and test scores are identical to the district's high school figures; the one place they differ meaningfully is chronic absenteeism, where the district number also includes elementary and middle schools.
The strongest news is completion. Frankfort High School graduates 92.1% of its students, above Indiana's 89.7% rate, and it has improved for three straight years — its rank moved from 353 of 432 to 345 of 429 to 319 of 415, and its percentile from the 18th to the 23rd. All three tested subjects improved year over year: Biology rose from 29.44% to 34.3% proficient, SAT reading/writing from 27.11% to 30.7%, and SAT math from 9.33% to 10.09%. Note that part of the rank gain reflects a shrinking pool of ranked Indiana high schools (432 down to 415), so percentile is the cleaner measure of progress. One caution for families reading district labels: the district carries 2 stars while the high school has been rated 1 star in each of the last three years — the district average is likely lifted by its K–8 schools.
The gaps to address are proficiency and attendance. Math is the deepest weakness, with only about 1 in 10 juniors meeting the math benchmark (10.09% versus the state's 25.6%), and it is improving more slowly than reading — the school's reading-to-math gap widened from 17.8 to 20.6 points. Roughly 1 in 5 students (21.6%) is chronically absent, exactly double the district's 10.8% and above the state's 16.7%, suggesting the high school is driving the district's absenteeism. Resources do not appear to be the constraint: $10,295 per student, a 14.4 student-teacher ratio (about 64 teachers), and 53.8% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch.
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