Summary:
There is one high school in Shoals Community School Corp: Shoals Community High School, which serves grades 9–12 at 7900 US Hwy 50 in Shoals, Indiana, with an enrollment of 201 students. Because it is the only high school in the corporation, district figures mirror school figures for high school test scores, and there is no second school in the area to compare it against. The most useful comparison is therefore between this school and statewide averages.
The school's clearest strength is its graduation rate: 95.6% in 2024–2025, versus 89.7% statewide and identical to the district rate. On other measures, the picture is much weaker. Chronic absenteeism stands at 52.9%, compared with 28.6% for the district and 16.7% for the state — more than triple the state rate. SAT Mathematics proficiency was only 5.17% in 2025–2026, far below the state's 25.6%, and was 8.11% in 2024–2025 against 25.4% statewide. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing improved from 24.32% to 37.93%, but both figures remain under state rates of 54.5% and 51.9%. Biology ILEARN results were essentially at the state level in 2024–2025 (45.83% versus 45.6%), then fell to 32.26% in 2025–2026, a drop of 13.57 percentage points, though no state value is provided for that year.
The school ranked 321 of 415 in 2025–2026, in the 23rd percentile with 1 star, and its rank history shows consistent bottom-quartile results: 22nd percentile in 2023–2024 and 28th in 2024–2025. Per-student spending was $12,487 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio is a favorable 9.5, suggesting a small, well-staffed setting even though outcomes remain low. The free/reduced lunch percentage is not reported, so economic context is unknown. For families, the takeaway is a split profile: strong graduation outcomes alongside serious attendance and mathematics concerns.
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