North White School Corp

North White School Corp is a small, high-poverty Indiana district serving K–12 students across three schools: North White Elementary School (K–5, 435 students), North White Middle School (6–8, 197 students), and North White High School (9–12, 272 students), for about 904 students total. The district ranks 335th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 10th percentile with 1 star, and all three schools share that district rating.

The elementary school has the district's clearest bright spot: chronic absenteeism of 8.5%, roughly half the state's 16.7% and well below the district's 17.8%. Its 3rd grade Math proficiency of 46.05% is the closest any grade-level result comes to the state's 51.9%, and all-grades Math is 30.93% versus the district's 19.33%. Its ELA, science, and social studies results still lag far below state levels. The middle school is the most academically vulnerable, with the highest free/reduced lunch rate (82.74%), the lowest per-student spending ($8,124), 0 stars in the last two rank years, and all-grades Math proficiency of only 7.73%, with Math in the single digits in every tested grade.

The high school stands out in a different way: a 95.0% graduation rate, above the state's 89.7%, plus the highest per-student spending ($17,248) and the lowest student-teacher ratio (12.8). Yet SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing is 37.5% versus the state's 51.9%, SAT Math is 5.36% versus 25.6%, and chronic absenteeism is the district's highest at 29.6%. Free/reduced lunch runs from 70.34% to 82.74% across the schools — important context, since the data alone cannot establish cause.