Summary:
Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson United has one middle school, Indian Creek Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 503 students in Trafalgar, Indiana. It is a 4-star school in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Its rank was 105 out of 480 schools (78th percentile) in 2024–2025 and 141 out of 486 (71st percentile) in 2025–2026, a meaningful improvement from 2023–2024, when it was 205 out of 491 (58th percentile) with 3 stars. Chronic absenteeism is exceptionally low at 6.3%, compared with 7.7% for the district and 16.7% for the state.
Math is the clearest academic strength. All-grades math proficiency was 49.21%. Sixth-grade math was 53.53% vs. 40.2% statewide (+13.33 percentage points), 7th-grade math was 50.96% vs. 35.9% (+15.06 points), and 8th-grade math was 43.5% vs. 34.2% (+9.3 points). Science is the main weak spot: proficiency was 34.12%, and 6th-grade science was 34.12% vs. 41.2% statewide (−7.08 points). Science also fell from 44.1% in 2024–2025 to 34.12% in 2025–2026, a decline of 9.98 percentage points. ELA is close to the state average, though 8th grade dipped: all-grades ELA was 43.45% (down from 44.15%), 6th grade was 45.88% vs. 41.3%, 7th grade was 43.31% vs. 41.7%, and 8th grade was 41.24% vs. 44.0% (−2.76 points).
Context: 30.62% of students qualify for free/reduced-price lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 13.1, and per-student spending is $10,182. The district rank is 115 of 374 (69th percentile, 3 stars), so the school’s 71st-percentile rank is above the district’s overall mark. For parents, Indian Creek Middle School is the only middle school in Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson United, and it is a solid, recently improved school. Its defining strengths are math proficiency, very low chronic absenteeism, and a recent 4-star ranking. Its clearest challenge is science, especially the roughly 10-point drop from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; ELA is broadly near the state average, with the main soft spot in 8th-grade ELA.
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