Summary:
South Madison Com School Corp in Indiana is served by a single middle school, Pendleton Heights Middle School, which enrolls 730 students in grades 7–8 at 7450 S 300 W in Pendleton, a community northeast of Indianapolis. Because it is the district's only middle school, parents cannot compare it with another local middle school; the most useful context comes from how it measures up against its district, South Madison Com School Corp, and against Indiana as a whole.
Pendleton Heights is a consistently strong performer. It has held a 4-star rating for three straight years and has ranked in the top 20% of Indiana middle schools each year: 97th of 486 (80th percentile) in 2025–2026, 82nd of 480 (83rd percentile) in 2024–2025, and 97th of 491 (80th percentile) in 2023–2024. Chronic absenteeism is the most striking number, at 1.4% at the school compared with 7.7% districtwide and 16.7% statewide. In 2025–2026, 7th-grade math proficiency was 45.23% and 8th-grade math was 45.18%, versus state rates of 35.9% and 34.2%. Eighth-grade ELA was 53.01%, compared with 44% statewide.
Two areas are worth watching. Seventh-grade ELA was 42.28%, only slightly above the state's 41.70%, while 8th-grade ELA reached 53.01% — a much wider grade-to-grade gap than the state's. All-grade scores were essentially flat year over year, and the school's 80th percentile ranking sits a bit below the district's 89th percentile and 4-star district rating. The school operates with a 21.1:1 student–teacher ratio, a 37.4% free/reduced lunch rate, and $9,802 in per-student spending.
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