Summary:
Rensselaer Central School Corp is a four-school district in Rensselaer, Indiana, serving about 1,522 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — and it ranks 63rd of 374 Indiana districts, placing it in the 83rd percentile with 4 stars.
Rensselaer Central Middle School (grades 6–8, 363 students) is the academic engine: its state rank climbed from the 79th to the 89th percentile over three years while holding 4 stars, and 7th-grade math reached 65.25% proficient against a state mark of 35.9%. Rensselaer Central High School (9–12, 432 students) graduates 93.2% of students and has only 7.8% chronic absenteeism — far better than the state's 16.7% — with SAT reading/writing at 61.11% vs. state 51.9%. Its SAT math is only slightly above state, though, and Biology results fell from 48.05% to 29.85%. Van Rensselaer Elementary School (3–5, 329 students) has bright 5th-grade results — 60% ELA, 55.24% math — but its overall rank slipped from 247th to 384th and its stars dropped from 4 to 3.
Rensselaer Central Primary School (PK–2, 398 students) reports no test data, which is typical for early grades, but it has the district's highest free/reduced-lunch rate at 51.01%, the highest absenteeism at 13.0%, and the lowest per-student spending at $9,756 — compared with $15,130 at the high school. Attendance is a district-wide strength: every school beats the state's 16.7% chronic absenteeism rate.
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