Summary:
South Newton School Corp is a small Indiana district whose high-school level consists of a single campus serving grades 9–12: South Newton Senior High School, with 225 students and a student-teacher ratio of 11.5 (roughly 20 teachers). Its 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch rate is 37.33%, indicating a moderate level of economic need, and per-student spending in 2023–2024 was $16,129. Because this is the only high school in the district, its test scores match the district's high-school scores exactly, while district-wide figures such as chronic absenteeism can differ because they include other grade levels.
Outcomes for finishing and attending school are solid. The 2024–2025 graduation rate is 91.1%, slightly above Indiana's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 12.5%, well below the state's 16.7% but above the district's 10.0%. Test proficiency is more mixed. Biology ILEARN End-of-Course proficiency jumped from 29.79% in 2024–2025 to 51.52% in 2025–2026, a 21.73 percentage-point gain and the largest improvement in the data. SAT Reading/Writing also improved, from 38.33% to 40.85%, while the state rate fell from 54.5% to 51.9% — narrowing the gap to 11.05 points but still leaving the school below state. SAT Math is the clearest concern: 12.68% in 2025–2026 versus 25.6% statewide, a 12.92-point gap, and down from 16.67% the prior year even as the state edged up.
In ranking history, the school improved from 296th of 429 (31st percentile) in 2024–2025 to 244th of 415 (41st percentile) in 2025–2026, but it remains a 2-star school and below the district's overall 3-star, 58th percentile position. With only 225 students, each cohort is small, so year-to-year swings can be amplified and should be read cautiously.
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