Liberty-Perry Community School Corp

Liberty-Perry Community School Corp is a small rural Indiana district serving about 1,161 students across three schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school covering grades K–12 — and it ranks 68th of 374 Indiana districts (82nd percentile) with a 4-star rating. Selma Elementary School is the largest school with 535 students in grades K–5 (46.1% of enrollment), followed by Wapahani High School with 349 students in grades 9–12, and Selma Middle School with 277 students in grades 6–8.

Selma Middle School is the district's academic anchor, holding the 84th–90th percentile in state rankings over three years, including one 5-star year, and outperforming the state in math by roughly 18–21 points in grades 6, 7, and 8. Selma Elementary School is also strong in math and science, beating state by about 9–18 points in grades 3–5 math and 13.19 points in 4th-grade science, and it has the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 12.9%. Wapahani High School posts a standout 96.6% graduation rate versus the state's 89.7%, and its biology scores jumped from 51.11% to 64.04% in one year.

The main concerns are uneven. Chronic absenteeism climbs sharply by level — 12.9% at the elementary, 19.4% at the middle, and 23.3% at the high school, well above the state's 16.7% — and both middle and high school rates exceed the district's 17.6%. At Wapahani High School, SAT results trail the state (43.48% ERW vs. 51.9% and 18.84% math vs. 25.6%) even after an improvement in math. Elementary ELA slipped from 49.46% to 44.53% year over year, while elementary science rose from 45.98% to 56.99%. Notably, Selma Middle School has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (58.84%) yet the strongest math results, and Wapahani High School spends the most per student ($13,116) while ranking lowest of the three.