Summary:
Kokomo School Corporation serves roughly 5,197 students across 13 schools — eight elementary, three middle, and two high schools — in and around Kokomo, Indiana. Elementary schools hold about 48.7% of enrollment, middle schools 20.7%, and high schools 30.6%. The largest school is Kokomo High School with 1,393 students; the smallest is Maple Crest STEM Elementary School with 187. The district ranks 278 of 374 statewide, at the 26th percentile with 1 star, while school-level ratings range from 0 to 4 stars.
The clearest standouts are two elementaries and one middle school. Maple Crest STEM Elementary School earns 4 stars, ranks at the 70th percentile, posts 50% ELA, 55.56% Math, and 51.28% Science proficiency, and has just 10.7% chronic absenteeism. Wallace Elementary School follows with 3 stars, a 66th percentile rank, 49.09% ELA and 53.33% Math. Among middle schools, Central Middle School leads at the 45th percentile, and its Biology End-of-Course result of 56.6% far exceeds the district's 22.71%.
Other schools face steeper challenges. Bon Air Middle School ranks at the 1st percentile with 0 stars, 1.65% ELA, 2.72% Math, and 46.8% chronic absenteeism. Elwood Haynes Elementary School has the district's highest spending ($20,800) and free/reduced lunch rate (86.83%) but only 4.35% ELA proficiency. Sycamore Elementary School is declining, and Pettit Park School remains near the bottom. Kokomo High School graduates 96.2% of students — above the state's 89.7% — yet its SAT scores trail the state and absenteeism is 42.8%. Kokomo Virtual Academy is a true outlier: 50% graduation, 0.3% absenteeism, the lowest spending ($4,639), and the highest student-teacher ratio (56.8). District absenteeism is 29.1% versus 16.7% statewide. Note that Bon Air Elementary School has no recent ILEARN record, and the Virtual Academy's Biology result is suppressed.
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