Summary:
In Portage Township Schools, there is one high school, Portage High School, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 2,163 students at 6450 US Hwy 6, Portage, IN 46368. Because it is the only high school in this area, parents should compare it with the district, the state, and its own year-over-year progress rather than with other local high schools.
Its strongest outcome is graduation: 94.4% in 2024–2025, which is 4.7 percentage points above Indiana’s 89.7%. The school is also improving in rankings, moving from the 29th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 32nd in 2024–2025 and the 36th in 2025–2026, with its star rating rising from 1 star to 2 stars. In 2025–2026, SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing was 45.65% proficient and SAT Mathematics was 18.26%; both beat the district rates of 42.83% and 16.6%, though both remained below the state’s 51.9% and 25.6%. SAT Reading/Writing improved by 2.20 points and SAT Mathematics by 2.28 points from 2024–2025, even as the state Reading/Writing rate declined.
Chronic absenteeism is the clearest concern: 27.3% in 2024–2025, compared with 20.3% in the district and 16.7% statewide, meaning more than one in four students were chronically absent. Biology proficiency was 22.7% in 2025–2026, 12.77 points below the district’s 35.47%; in 2024–2025, Biology was 23.63% versus the state’s 45.6%. SAT Mathematics remains the weakest tested subject relative to the state, 7.34 points below. Overall, Portage High School is improving but from a low base: its 2025–2026 rank is 265 of 415, the 36th percentile, with 2 stars. Attendance intervention and targeted math and science support appear to be the most important levers, while maintaining the graduation supports already producing strong results.
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