Summary:
Hanover Community School Corp includes exactly one high school, Hanover Central High School, which serves grades 9–12 in Cedar Lake, Indiana, with 857 students enrolled. The district as a whole ranks 33rd out of 374 Indiana districts — the 91st percentile — and holds a 5-star district rating.
Hanover Central High School currently ranks 67th of 415 schools (84th percentile, 4 stars), a rebound from 167th of 429 (61st percentile, 3 stars) the prior year and close to its 2023–2024 position of 63rd of 432 (85th percentile, 4 stars). Its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 96.9%, matching the district and 7.2 percentage points above the state's 89.7%. SAT results exceed the state in both subjects: 66.38% versus 51.9% in Evidence-based Reading and Writing and 36.6% versus 25.6% in Mathematics in 2025–2026, following 69.42% versus 54.5% and 31.55% versus 25.4% a year earlier. Math rose 5.05 percentage points year over year while English eased 3.04 points. Biology ILEARN proficiency climbed from 30.75% in 2024–2025 (below the state's 45.6%) to 43.14% in 2025–2026, though the state value for that year is not provided, so the gap for 2025–2026 cannot be measured.
Areas to watch: chronic absenteeism is 14.4%, better than the state's 16.7% but above the district's 11.0%, and the school's math proficiency sits 29.78 percentage points below its English proficiency. For context, free/reduced lunch is 17.15%, per-student spending is $12,091, and the student-teacher ratio is 17.8.
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