Yorktown Community Schools

Yorktown Community Schools is a four-school Indiana district serving K–12 students through two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, with 2,793 students enrolled and a district rating of 59th of 374 Indiana districts, 4 stars, and the 84th percentile. The district includes Yorktown High School (grades 9–12, 839 students), Yorktown Middle School (6–8, 687), Yorktown Elementary School (3–5, 649), and Pleasant View Elementary School (K–2, 618).

Yorktown High School is the flagship with a 97.9% graduation rate versus Indiana's 89.7% and chronic absenteeism of 7.8% versus 16.7% statewide, plus SAT Reading/Writing 63.54% and Math 37.5% in 2025–26, both above state. It slipped from 5 stars to 4 stars, and Biology ILEARN End-of-Course fell from 57.28% to 47.31%. Yorktown Middle School has the biggest outlier: Biology End-of-Course 96.55% in 2025–26, likely a small or accelerated test group; its grade-level ELA and math are above state, and absenteeism is lowest at 7.0%, though all-grades math and science are below district. Yorktown Elementary School stands out in math: all-grades 61.56% versus district 52.63%, 3rd-grade 70.41% versus state 51.9%, and 5th-grade 58.6% versus 42%; ELA is weaker at 41.37% versus district 45.55%. Pleasant View Elementary School has no test scores because it serves K–2, but has the lowest student–teacher ratio, 16.3, and low absenteeism, 7.3%.

Attendance is a district-wide strength: every school is below the state chronic absenteeism rate of 16.7%, with a district rate of 7.7%. Free/reduced lunch is higher in the elementary grades (Yorktown Elementary School 41.76%, Pleasant View Elementary School 39.97%) than at the middle school (34.93%) or Yorktown High School (33.73%). Per-student spending ranges from $9,165 at Yorktown Elementary School to $11,273 at Yorktown High School, showing that spending, poverty, and outcomes do not line up in a simple way. Overall, this is an above-average district with a strong high school that has softened slightly, an unusual middle-school biology result, notable elementary math results, and a data-limited but operationally favorable Pleasant View Elementary School. No test scores in this data set are suppressed or reported only as bounds.