Summary:
South Adams Schools contains only one middle school, South Adams Middle School in Berne, Indiana, serving grades 6–8 with 294 students. Because there is no other middle school in the district to compare against, the most useful benchmarks are South Adams Schools overall and the state. The school is rated 4 stars and ranks 112th of 486 Indiana middle schools, the 77th percentile, up from 128th (73rd percentile) last year and 161st (67th percentile, 3 stars) the year before — a steady three-year climb.
Attendance is a clear strength: chronic absenteeism is 6.3%, compared with 9.1% for the district and 16.7% statewide, which is less than half the state rate. Math proficiency is strong and consistent across grades: 55.45% in 6th grade, 56.25% in 7th, and 55.17% in 8th, each well above its state comparison. All-grade math rose from 47.83% to 55.63% in one year, a gain of 7.80 points. Science is the strongest subject relative to peers: 56.44% at the school versus 45.96% in the district, a 10.48-point advantage, and 6th-grade science is 15.24 points above the state. Science also improved 7.99 points year over year.
English Language Arts is the area to watch. All-grade ELA proficiency is 38.95%, below the district's 42.53%, and it improved only 0.54 points while the district gained 2.15, so the gap widened. By grade, 6th-grade ELA (42.16%) is slightly above the state's 41.3%, 7th grade (39.58%) is below the state's 41.7%, and 8th grade (34.48%) trails the state's 44.0% by 9.52 points. For context, 52.38% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $11,182, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.2.
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