Summary:
Lewis Cass High School in Walton, Indiana is the only high school in the Lewis Cass Schools district, serving grades 9–12 with 388 students, which means families here have a single local high school to look at and can really only compare it with state averages or with its own trend over time.
The school's clearest strength is graduation: 98.9% in 2024–25, well above Indiana's 89.7% state average — a 9.2 percentage point advantage. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing has also run above the state, at 58.67% versus 54.5% in 2024–25 and 52.17% versus 51.9% in 2025–26, although the school's own score dropped 6.5 points between those years, narrowing that margin. Mathematics is the biggest concern: SAT math fell from 21.33% to 15.22%, leaving it 10.38 points below the state's 25.6% in 2025–26 after already trailing by 4.07 points the year before. Biology ILEARN End of Course proficiency stayed near 30% both years and was 15.34 points below the state's 45.6% in 2024–25, the only year a state comparison is listed.
Context helps round out the picture: 43.56% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — roughly 169 students — the student-teacher ratio is 11.1:1, and per-student spending was $12,850 in 2023–24. Chronic absenteeism was 16.7% in 2024–25, exactly the state average but 6.4 points above the district's 10.3%, suggesting the high school sees more absenteeism than the district overall. The ranking trend mirrors the uneven academics: the school was 202 of 429 with 3 stars and 53rd percentile in 2024–25, then 247 of 415 with 2 stars and 40th percentile in 2025–26 — a 45-position drop. Overall, strong graduation outcomes and solid reading/writing are offset by weak math and science proficiency and a recent slide in both scores and ranking.
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