Summary:
Hamilton Community High School is the only high school in Hamilton Community Schools, a small district in Hamilton, Indiana, serving 183 students in grades 6–12, so its data blends middle-grade testing with traditional high school measures like SAT and Biology end-of-course exams.
For parents, the school's strongest points are outside and on the edges of core academics. Its graduation rate of 92.0% is above Indiana's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism at 14.5% is better than the state's 16.7%, though higher than the district's 10.0%. Science is the clearest academic bright spot: 6th-grade science reached 44.83%, above the state's 41.2%, all-grade science climbed from 35.48% to 44.83%, and Biology end-of-course surged from 40.0% to 76.19% — a 36.19 percentage-point jump. Class sizes look small, with a student-teacher ratio of 8.5 and per-student spending of $19,853 in 2023–2024.
Academically, the picture is more uneven. Math is the weakest area: all-grade math was 21.69% against the district's 39.13%, grade-level math ranged from 16.13% in 7th grade to 27.59% in 6th grade, and 11th-grade SAT Math was just 9.09% versus the state's 25.6%. ELA fell below state at every grade level — 6th grade 31.03%, 7th grade 32.26%, and 8th grade 30.43% — and slipped overall from 33.75% to 31.33%, while SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing dropped from 33.33% to 27.27%, well under the state's 51.9%. The school's rank has been volatile, moving from 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 1 star in 2024–2025 and back to 2 stars (248 of 415) in 2025–2026, a pattern that likely reflects very small grade-level cohorts where a few students can shift results sharply.
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