Summary:
Paoli Community School Corp in southern Indiana has just one elementary school in this data set — Throop Elementary School, serving grades K–6 to 693 students at 301 Elm St in Paoli — so families have a single elementary option within the district.
Overall, Throop Elementary School sits in the middle of the pack statewide: 525th of 1,015 elementary schools, at the 48th percentile with 2 stars. The school earned 3 stars in 2023–24, then slipped to 2 stars in 2024–25 and held at 2 stars in 2025–26, with a very slight rank improvement in the most recent year. Performance varies a lot by grade. Sixth grade is the clear strength: 57.83% proficient in Science, 16.63 points above the state's 41.2%, and 51.81% in English language arts, 10.51 points above the state's 41.3%. Third grade Math is also ahead of the state at 54.88%. The weakest spots are 5th grade Math at 22.83% proficient, 19.17 points below the state's 42%, 4th grade ELA at 25.51% versus 42.2% statewide, and 4th grade Science at 33.67% versus 43.8% statewide.
Trends are mixed but mostly encouraging. All-grade Math rose from 39.15% to 41.41% and beats the district's 36.93%, and 5th grade Social Studies jumped from 28.75% to 38.04%, though it still trails the state's 47.2% by more than 9 points. All-grade Science dipped slightly from 46.7% to 44.75%. Chronic absenteeism is 16.6%, essentially level with the state's 16.7% but 3.3 points above the district's 13.3%. About 51.66% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $10,928, and the student–teacher ratio is 13.5 to 1.
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