Summary:
Orleans Community Schools is a small rural Indiana district made up of two schools serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: Orleans Elementary School (PK–6, 499 students) and Orleans Junior-Senior High School (7–12, 388 students), for a combined enrollment of 887. There is no standalone middle school — grades 7 and 8 sit inside the junior-senior high. Overall, the district ranks 267th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 29th percentile with 1 star.
The strongest signals come from the elementary school. Its 2024–25 chronic absenteeism was 7.9%, below the district's 9.0% and less than half the state's 16.7%; the high school's 10.5% is also below the state but above the district. Elementary all-grade ILEARN rose from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in ELA (28.52% to 31.06%), Math (24.22% to 31.82%) and Science (30.33% to 39.10%), alongside a rank move from 29th percentile/1 star to 36th percentile/2 stars. The high school improved to 46th percentile/2 stars in 2024–25 before slipping to 38th percentile/2 stars, and its graduation rate of 88.7% is just 1.0 point under the state's 89.7%. Its 2024–25 SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing result, 55.38%, topped the state's 54.5% before falling to 46.81%.
Academically, the elementary school outperformed the high school and the district in 2025–26 all-grade ELA (31.06% vs. 22.76% and 28.42%) and Math (31.82% vs. 18.70% and 27.65%). The biggest gaps to the state are upper elementary math, middle school ELA and math, and SAT math: 4th grade ELA 23.38% vs. 42.2%, 4th grade Math 28.57% vs. 52.0%, 7th grade Math 14.81% vs. 35.9%, 8th grade ELA 21.74% vs. 44.0%, and SAT Math 12.77% vs. 25.6%. Notably, the high school spends more per student ($12,847 vs. $10,588) with smaller classes (12.7 vs. 14.4) yet posts lower current proficiency, though the schools serve different grades and tests.
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