Middle Schools in School Town of Speedway

Middle schools in the School Town of Speedway include exactly one school: Speedway Junior High School, which serves grades 7–8 in Speedway, Indiana, and enrolls 264 students. The district is ranked 16th of 374 Indiana districts (96th percentile, 5 stars), so this single school represents the entire middle-grade profile for the area. The school is located at 5151 W 14th St, Speedway, IN 46224, with a student-teacher ratio of 14.1:1 and spending per student of $12,713. About 64.02% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Speedway Junior High School is a top-decile school. In 2025–2026, it ranked 29th of 486 Indiana middle schools (94th percentile) and earned 5 stars. That is a clear upward trend: 75th of 491 (85th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 and 51st of 480 (89th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025. Grade-level ILEARN proficiency is well above state: 7th ELA 67.02 vs. 41.7; 8th ELA 59.52 vs. 44; 7th math 61.7 vs. 35.9; 8th math 50.4 vs. 34.2. Chronic absenteeism is only 5.1%, compared with 6.4% district and 16.7% state. All-grades ELA rose 10.00 points and math rose 4.86 points year over year.

Families should know math is the relative weak spot, though still improving. All-grades math is 55.25, below the district-wide 62.21, and 8th-grade math (50.4) is the lowest grade-level result. The math gap to the district narrowed from 10.82 to 6.96 points, and the ELA gap narrowed from 2.65 to 0.11 points. 7th grade outperformed 8th grade by 7.5 points in ELA and 11.3 points in math. With high poverty and strong outcomes, the school posts above-state proficiency and excellent attendance. Overall, Speedway Junior High School is a high-performing, improving middle school whose main opportunity area is math, especially in 8th grade.