Summary:
North Knox School Corp is a small Indiana district of three schools and about 1,158 students, serving grades K–12: North Knox Primary School (K–2, 247 students), North Knox Intermediate (3–6, 370 students), and North Knox Junior-Senior High School (7–12, 541 students). There is no standalone middle school, so grades 7–8 are folded into the junior-senior high. The district ranks 254th of 374 in Indiana — the 32nd percentile, with a 2-star rating.
North Knox Intermediate is the strongest academic bright spot, with ELA at 38.76% proficient (district 36.45%) and math at 33.99% (district 28.99%); 5th grade ELA reached 48.28% versus Indiana's 42.2%, and 5th grade social studies 48.28% versus 47.2%. Its ELA rose from 31.79% to 38.76%. North Knox Primary School has the lowest chronic absenteeism (14.5%), the lowest student-teacher ratio (13.0), and the highest per-student spending ($12,309), but the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 64.78%; because K–2 students take no state tests, its academic outcomes are not visible. North Knox Junior-Senior High School posts a 97.3% graduation rate versus Indiana's 89.7%, but also the highest absenteeism (23.8%), the lowest ILEARN math (19.58%), and SAT math of 14.71% against the state's 25.6%.
Math looks like a district-wide pipeline problem: Intermediate math falls from 46.07% in 3rd grade to 25.26% in 6th, then to 19.58% in high school, with SAT math around 14–15%. Chronic absenteeism also climbs with grade level — 14.5% at Primary, 16.8% at Intermediate, 23.8% at the high school — pushing the district's 19.6% above the state's 16.7%. Notably, Intermediate spends the least per student ($9,375) yet posts the strongest proficiency, while the higher-spending high school lags. SAT reading/writing dropped 9.70 points there, far more than the state's decline.
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