Summary:
Prairie Heights Elementary School is the only elementary school in Prairie Heights Community School Corp, serving grades K–4 with 537 students in LaGrange, IN; the district ranks 149 of 374, at the 60th percentile with 3 stars. Because it is the district’s entire elementary footprint, there are no within-district elementary peers to compare, so the most useful comparisons are to the district, the state, and the school’s own prior years.
Academically, math is the standout. In 2025–2026, all-grade math proficiency was 57.27%, well above the district’s 35.38%. Third grade math was especially strong at 68.52% proficient, compared with the state’s 51.9%, and third grade ELA was 51.85%, compared with the state’s 40.8%. However, fourth grade results were much weaker: ELA was 27.68% (state 42.2%), math was 46.43% (state 52.0%), and science was 36.61% (state 43.8%). This means the overall numbers hide a large third-to-fourth grade drop-off. Overall ELA was 39.55%, below the district’s 46.79%, while overall math was 57.27%, above the district’s 35.38%.
Other indicators are mixed but useful. Chronic absenteeism was 15.7%, better than the district’s 16.0% and the state’s 16.7%. The school’s rank improved from 539 of 1,005 in 2024–2025 to 472 of 1,015 in 2025–2026, moving from 2 stars and 46th percentile to 3 stars and 53rd percentile, though it remains below its 2023–2024 position. Science declined from 51.16% to 36.61% year over year. About 43.76% of students receive free/reduced lunch, per-student spending was $10,990 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio was 17.7 in 2024–2025. Overall, the school shows strong math, especially in third grade, better-than-state attendance, and a recovering rank, but fourth grade ELA, fourth grade science, and the science decline are the main concerns.
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