Summary:
If you are looking at high schools in Southeast Dubois County School Corp, there is a single option: Forest Park Junior-Senior High School in Ferdinand, which serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 555 students. It has been rated 5 stars in each of the last three school years (2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026) and has ranked in the top 10% of Indiana high schools each year — 28th of 432, 31st of 429, and 36th of 415. Its percentile has drifted slightly, from 94 to 93 to 91, but it remains a top-decile, 5-star school.
Graduation and attendance are clear strengths. The graduation rate is 98.1%, well above the statewide 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 6.4% compared with 16.7% statewide — though the district-wide figure of 3.7% is lower still. Reading is the standout academic area. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing scored 75.64 in 2025–2026 and 75.9 in 2024–2025, roughly 21–24 points above the state, and ILEARN ELA beat state marks in 7th grade (57.84 vs. 41.7) and 8th grade (61.32 vs. 44). ELA All Grades also rose from 56.48 to 59.62 year over year.
Math is above state but is the relative weak spot. SAT Math stayed 10.3 points above state at 35.9, yet fell from 40.96 the prior year; ILEARN Math All Grades slipped from 47.94 to 45.19 and sits well below the district's 59.59. Note that the school's 7th and 8th grade math scores exactly match the district's, suggesting the district "All Grades" figure covers a broader grade range, so that gap may not be an apples-to-apples comparison. For context, 23.96% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 12.6, and per-student spending is $12,285.
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