Seymour Community Schools

Seymour Community Schools is a 1-star, 29th-percentile Indiana district serving 5,432 students across eight schools: five elementary schools (grades PK/K–4), two middle schools — Seymour Intermediate School for grades 5–6 and Seymour Middle School for grades 7–8 — and one high school. It ranks 264th of 374 Indiana districts, but results vary far more inside the district than that single rating suggests.

The strongest schools are Cortland Elementary School (3 stars, 60th percentile, with 47.5% ELA and 50.0% math proficiency) and Emerson Elementary School (3 stars, 58th percentile, with 59.26% math — more than double the district's 28.13%). Both were 4-star schools the prior two years before slipping to 3 stars in 2025–2026. Seymour Middle School is a relative bright spot at 2 stars, with ELA of 34.15% versus the district's 24.92%. At the other end, Margaret R Brown Elementary School is the district's lowest-ranked school (0 stars, 9th percentile, 9.23% ELA), and Seymour-Jackson Elementary School sits at 1 star with 11.5% ELA. Seymour Senior High School is 1 star, with SAT math at 14.86% against the state's 25.6% and chronic absenteeism of 22.9%. Seymour-Redding Elementary School shows an unusual split: math at 39.57% and science at 32.65% above district averages, but ELA at 21.28% below.

Overall, the lowest-performing schools tend to serve higher-poverty populations — Brown has the district's highest free/reduced lunch rate at 75.95% — but attendance alone does not explain results, since Brown's chronic absenteeism of 8.3% is second-lowest in the district. The top performers combine lower poverty, lower absenteeism, smaller class sizes, and higher spending.