Summary:
The high-school picture in South Montgomery Com School Corp is made up of a single school: Southmont Senior High School, serving grades 9–12 to 476 students at 6425 US 231 S in Crawfordsville. Because it is the only high school in the district, it represents the entire high-school experience here. The district itself ranks 64th of 374 Indiana districts, placing in the 83rd percentile with a 4-star rating, and the school has held a 4-star rating in each of the three reported rank-history years.
For parents, the strongest signals are graduation and reading. The 2024–25 graduation rate was 98.3%, well above Indiana's 89.7%. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing proficiency reached 69.61% in 2025–26, far above the state's 51.9%, after a slightly below-state 52.53% in 2024–25 — a 17.08-point one-year gain. SAT Mathematics proficiency was above state in both years: 28.43% vs. 25.6% in 2025–26 and 29.29% vs. 25.4% in 2024–25, though still below one-third proficient. Chronic absenteeism was 15.1%, better than the state's 16.7%. School rankings moved from 86th percentile in 2023–24 to 71st in 2024–25 and back to 75th in 2025–26 — 102nd of 415 high schools — keeping it in the top quartile.
The clearest weak spot is Biology ILEARN End of Course: 35.64% in 2025–26 against the district's 47.69%, and 47.86% in 2024–25 against the district's 56.67%, a 12.22-point year-over-year decline. Absenteeism, while better than the state, ran 1.8 points above the district's 13.3%. For context, 32.77% of students received free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio was 14.3, and spending was $13,366 per student; no state comparisons were provided for those three figures.
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