Summary:
Jay School Corporation, a rural Indiana district ranked 147th of 374 statewide (61st percentile, 3 stars), includes five elementary schools serving grades K through 6 — four spanning K–6 or 3–6, plus one K–2 early-grades school — with 1,743 students enrolled in total.
Each school has a distinct profile. East Jay Elementary is the largest at 529 students and posts the highest all-grade Math score at 48.54%, along with 44.47% in ELA and 40.61% in Science, holding steady near the 61st percentile. Bloomfield Elementary School has the best attendance at 5.5% chronic absenteeism — far below the district's 19.0% and the state's 16.7% — and the top all-grade ELA score at 45.34%, though its rank percentile has slipped from 68 to 52. Redkey Elementary School has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (37.73%) and lowest spending ($10,489) while leading 5th-grade Social Studies at 55.26%, and it is the only school clearly improving, rising from the 40th to 50th percentile and from 2 to 3 stars. West Jay Elementary is smallest at 214 students and leads Science at 47.17%, but has the highest poverty rate (72.43%), highest spending ($12,987), and lowest 4th-grade ELA and Math at 14.29%. East Elementary School serves K–2, so it has no ILEARN results to compare.
Across the group, attendance is a relative strength: every school's chronic absenteeism is below the district's 19.0%, and four of five are below the state's 16.7%. Academically, 4th grade is the clearest weak spot — all four tested schools trail the state in both 4th-grade ELA and Math — while 6th-grade Math is a strength, with all four tested schools above the state's 40.2%. Average all-grade results among the four tested schools — 39.92% ELA, 44.68% Math, and 40.59% Science — sit close to district figures. Poverty and per-student spending do not map neatly onto outcomes, so families should weigh each school's specific strengths rather than assume resources determine results.
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