Summary:
Wes-Del Community Schools in Gaston, Indiana contains just one high school: Wes-Del Middle/Senior High School, a combined building serving grades 6 through 12 with 435 students. Because it is the only school serving those grades, it functions as both the district's middle school and its high school, so every secondary number reported for the Wes-Del Community Schools district comes from this one building. The district is ranked 193 of 374 in the state, in the 48th percentile with 2 stars.
The school's standout strength is its graduation rate: 98.0% of seniors earn a diploma, 8.3 percentage points above Indiana's 89.7% rate. Its statewide standing also rebounded in 2025-26 to #171 of 415 schools (59th percentile, 3 stars), up from a 2024-25 dip to #222 (48th percentile, 2 stars). Biology End-of-Course proficiency jumped to 56.25% from 38.33% the prior year — a 17.92-point gain and the largest single-year improvement in the data. Science overall sits at or slightly above the district level.
Math is the clearest and most consistent weakness: proficiency trails the state at every tested grade — 6th (31.15% vs. 40.2%), 7th (20.78% vs. 35.9%), 8th (22.54% vs. 34.2%) — and SAT Math (20.45% vs. 25.6%). Sixth grade ELA is the sharpest red flag at 21.31% proficient against a 41.3% state rate, roughly half the state level, though 7th and 8th grade ELA recover to near-state (38.96% and 38.89%). Chronic absenteeism is 21.7%, above the district's 18.0% and 5.0 points above the state's 16.7%. Context: 57.7% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, spending is $13,656 per student, and the student-teacher ratio is a favorable 13.5:1.
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