Middle Schools in Southwest Dubois County School Corp

The middle-school level of Southwest Dubois County School Corp consists of a single school: Southridge Middle School in Huntingburg, Indiana, serving grades 6–8 with 394 students (about 131 per grade). Because there are no other middle schools in the district, there is no in-district peer to compare against — the meaningful benchmarks are the district's overall totals and Indiana state averages. The school has 58.88% of students qualifying for free/reduced-price lunch, spends $9,142 per pupil, and has a 15.6 student–teacher ratio.

Southridge's strongest results are attendance and math. Chronic absenteeism is 6.1%, compared with 9.1% for the district and 16.7% statewide — a notably low rate for a school with a high share of low-income students. Math proficiency beats the state in every grade: grade 8 math is 67.67% versus the state's 34.2%, grade 6 is 60.26% versus 40.2%, and grade 7 is 47.14% versus 35.9%. All-grades math rose 5.61 points year over year to 58.28%. The school has held a 4-star rating and a top-quartile state rank for three straight years (74th–84th percentile; 79th in 2025–2026). Biology End-of-Course proficiency was 100% in both recent years, far above the district's 43–44% and the state's 45.6%, though a middle school typically enters only a small, selected group in that exam.

The clear improvement priority is English/language arts in the lower grades. Grade 7 ELA is 34.29% against the state's 41.7%, and grade 6 ELA is 39.74% against 41.3%, while grade 8 ELA is a strength at 60.9% versus 44%. All-grades science fell 12.79 points to 44.87%, but reportable science testing here is concentrated in a single grade, so that change mainly compares one sixth-grade cohort with a different one rather than tracking the same students. Overall, this is a consistently strong, top-quartile middle school with exceptional math and attendance, and a focused opportunity in middle-grade reading and writing.