Summary:
Greencastle Community School Corp is a five-school district in and around Greencastle, Indiana, serving about 1,818 students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 across one high school, one middle school, and three elementary schools, and it ranks 111th of 374 Indiana districts — the 70th percentile — with 4 stars.
Greencastle High School is the district's academic engine, climbing from the 60th to the 81st percentile in three years and reaching 4 stars. Its Biology ILEARN score rose from 41.98% to 61.68%, SAT Math improved to 27.36% (above the state's 25.6%), and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing sits at about the state's 51.9%. The trade-off is engagement: the high school has the district's highest chronic absenteeism at 24.0%, well above the district's 17.9% and the state's 16.7%, and its 86.3% graduation rate trails the state's 89.7%. Greencastle Middle School has the best attendance in the district at 13.4%, plus all-grade ELA of 42.23% and 6th and 8th grade math above state levels — but 7th grade math at 19.47% is far below the state's 35.9%.
At Tzouanakis Intermediate School (45th percentile, 2 stars), math at 44.1% and science at 42.62% beat the district, while ELA at 32.82% lags it and 4th grade ELA is 12.69 points below state. The two primary schools contrast sharply: Deer Meadow Primary School has lower absenteeism (14.2%) but the largest classes (18.1 ratio), while Martha J Ridpath Elementary School has the highest poverty (70.62% free/reduced lunch), highest spending ($13,762), smallest classes (11.5), and 21.6% absenteeism. District-wide, attendance is the shared challenge.
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