Maconaquah School Corp

Maconaquah School Corp is a four-school district in Indiana serving 1,883 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade, ranked 232nd of 374 districts statewide (38th percentile, 2 stars). The district has two elementary schools — Pipe Creek Elementary School (PK–1, 363 students) and Maconaquah Elementary School (2–5, 563 students) — plus Maconaquah Middle School (6–8, 407 students) and Maconaquah High School (9–12, 550 students). There is no alternative school, and Pipe Creek has no test scores or rank because it serves only PK–1.

Maconaquah High School is the strongest on completion and reading: a 96.0% graduation rate (above the state's 89.7%) and 59.69% proficient in SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing, above the state's 51.9%. It ranks 197 of 415 schools (53rd percentile, 3 stars), up from 2 stars a year earlier. Its weak point is SAT Mathematics at just 14.73%, well below the state's 25.6%, and its chronic absenteeism of 22.6% is the district's highest. Maconaquah Elementary School has improved steadily to 617 of 1015 (39th percentile, 2 stars), with math at 41.18% and science at 51.08% — both above district rates — but English Language Arts at 22.76% lags the district, and grade-level ELA is far below state. Its absenteeism, 12.1%, is the district's lowest. Maconaquah Middle School sits at 330 of 486 (32nd percentile, 2 stars) and has slipped slightly, with math at 21.9% and science at 22.86%, both below district, though 8th grade results and Biology End of Course (71.74%) are bright spots. Pipe Creek Elementary School has no academic data but favorable absenteeism (14.1%) and the highest student-teacher ratio at 20.1. Districtwide, chronic absenteeism is 17.0%, and spending is highest at the middle school ($11,439) despite weaker outcomes.

In short, families will find a high school that graduates students at a strong rate but struggles in math, an elementary school gaining ground in math and science while working on literacy, a middle school with low scores concentrated in the earlier grades, and an early elementary school with no test data yet but relatively low absenteeism.