Summary:
Shoals Community School Corp is a small rural Indiana district with three schools serving students from prekindergarten through 12th grade — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — enrolling about 603 students combined. The district as a whole ranks 285th of 374 districts, in the 24th percentile with 1 star, and all three schools share that district rating. Per-student spending is similar across the schools, roughly $12,400 to $12,700, so cost differences do not explain the gaps in results.
Shoals Community Elementary School is the relative bright spot: in 2025–2026 it ranked 673 of 1,015 schools, in the 34th percentile with 2 stars, up from 1 star in the two prior years. It is the only school here rated 2 stars, beats the district in ELA (31.58% vs 24.12%) and Math (36.28% vs 24.61%), and has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 10.3% — below the district's 28.6% and the state's 16.7%. Its results swing widely by grade, though: 4th grade is above state in ELA and Math, while 5th grade ELA and Math are both 14.71%, far below state.
Shoals Middle School has slid from 42nd percentile and 2 stars in 2023–2024 to 23rd percentile and 1 star now, with 2025–2026 ELA at 18.18% and Math at 15.38%, both below the district; Science, at 37.25%, is above the district. Shoals Community High School graduates 95.6% of students, above the state's 89.7%, but SAT Math proficiency is just 5.17% versus 25.6% statewide and SAT reading/writing is 37.93% versus 51.9%. Its chronic absenteeism, 52.9%, is more than triple the state rate, and the middle school's 31.1% is also well above state — a major concern for families.
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