Peru Community Schools

Schools in Peru Community Schools in Indiana include three schools serving students from preschool through grade 12 — Elmwood Primary Learning Center (PK–2), Blair Pointe Upper Elementary (3–6), and Peru Junior/Senior High School (7–12) — enrolling 1,830 students in a feeder pattern that runs from primary through high school. The district is rated 2 stars, ranked 229th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 39th percentile.

Each school has a distinct profile. Elmwood has the strongest attendance at 11.1% chronic absenteeism, below the state's 16.7%, along with the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (46.83%) and the lowest student-teacher ratio (15.2), but it serves PK–2 and has no current test scores in this data. Blair Pointe is the relative math and science bright spot: math all grades is 36.3%, above the district's 33.16%, and 4th grade science (43.8%) exactly matches the state. However, its ELA all grades fell from 37.45% to 28.15%, and its rank dropped from 3 stars to 2 stars. Peru Junior/Senior High is the largest school at 814 students, with the highest per-student spending ($12,089) and a strong Biology result of 57.78%, up from 43.93%, but its SAT Math is 14.85% against the state's 25.6%.

The key takeaway for families is that the district's absenteeism challenge is concentrated at the high school, where chronic absenteeism is 42.7%, while both elementary schools are at or below the state rate. High school math is the weakest area, and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing fell from 44.09% to 38.61%, while graduation is 87.8% versus the state's 89.7%. Peru Junior/Senior High improved on ILEARN ELA and math and rose to the 46th percentile, while Blair Pointe declined to the 38th percentile. Elmwood has no current rank, so its achievement cannot be compared here.