Southwest Dubois County School Corp

Southwest Dubois County School Corp serves about 2,041 students across five schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools — spanning grades PK through 12, and the district ranks 77th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 79th percentile with 4 stars. That overall strength is real, but it is not spread evenly across the schools.

Holland Elementary School is the academic anchor. Its all-grade proficiency beats district averages in ELA (56.73% vs 45.44%), math (69.23% vs 54.46%), and science (59.38% vs 45.19%), and it has the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 4.2% and lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 41.8%. Its school rank climbed 252 → 210 → 136. Southridge Middle School is the math and science standout: math all grades is 58.28%, and 8th-grade math is 67.67% against a state rate of 34.2%. Its chronic absenteeism is 6.1%, and it ranks 103 of 486 at the 79th percentile with 4 stars. Note that its reported 100% Biology End of Course result is a dramatic outlier, likely reflecting a very small test group.

Southridge High School is split: SAT scores and a 93.4% graduation rate are above district and state, but Biology End of Course is 26.47% versus the district's 43.38%, and chronic absenteeism is 14.7% versus the district's 9.1%. Huntingburg Elementary School is the largest school at 806 students and faces the most resource pressure — the highest free/reduced lunch rate (61.17%), highest student-teacher ratio (19.5), and lowest per-student spending ($8,744) — with core proficiency below district averages, though its rank improved from 589 to 477. Southridge Alternative Learning Center has only 14 students, and its school-level test scores are not reported, so they should be treated as unknown rather than zero. Districtwide, every reported school sits below the state's 16.7% chronic absenteeism rate.