Summary:
Kankakee Valley School Corp is home to one high school — Kankakee Valley High School — serving grades 9–12 in Wheatfield, Indiana, with 976 students. Because it is the only high school in the corporation, its results define what high-school families in this area can expect, and comparisons are best made against district and state averages rather than against other local high schools.
The school's clearest strengths are graduation and reading. Its 94.9% graduation rate for 2024–2025 matches the district and runs 5.2 percentage points above the Indiana rate of 89.7%. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing was above the state in both available years — 57.81% vs. 54.5% in 2024–2025 and 56.48% vs. 51.9% in 2025–2026. Kankakee Valley High School also holds a 4-star rating in all three years of its rank history, placing 73rd of 429 schools (83rd percentile) in 2024–2025 and 116th of 415 (72nd percentile) in 2025–2026.
Two areas warrant attention. SAT Mathematics dropped from 31.64% in 2024–2025 to 25.91% in 2025–2026 — still just above the state's 25.6%, but the margin narrowed from 6.24 points to 0.31 points. Biology ILEARN End of Course fell from 54.39% to 47.14%, down 7.25 points after being 8.79 points above the state in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism is the biggest concern: 21.2% in 2024–2025, versus 14.7% for the district and 16.7% for the state. The school serves a moderately high-need population, with 40.57% of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch, $12,039 per-student spending (2023–2024), and a student-teacher ratio of 14.9.
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