Summary:
Middle schools in Sunman-Dearborn Com School Corp are served by a single school, East Central Middle School in Saint Leon, Indiana, which covers grades 6–8 and enrolls 803 students. Because the district has only one middle school, there are no in-district peer schools to compare against, so the most useful benchmarks are state averages and the district's own aggregate figures. The school reports 23.54% free/reduced lunch participation, $10,561 in per-student spending (2023–2024), and a student-teacher ratio of 15.7.
East Central Middle School is a consistently high performer. It earned a 4-star rating in each of the last three reported years and stayed in the top 20% of Indiana middle schools: 88th of 486 (82nd percentile) in 2025–2026, 71st of 480 (85th percentile) in 2024–2025, and 99th of 491 (80th percentile) in 2023–2024. The district itself ranks 44th of 374 statewide at the 88th percentile with 4 stars. On ILEARN, the school is above the state average in every reported grade-level subject, with the largest margins in 6th grade science (59.65% proficient vs. 41.2% statewide), 7th grade math (51.08% vs. 35.9%), and 8th grade math (48.03% vs. 34.2%). Its narrowest advantage is 8th grade ELA at +2.24 points over state, still above average.
Chronic absenteeism is a clear strength: at 7.6%, the school is 1.1 percentage points below the district and 9.1 points below the 16.7% state rate. Two watch points stand out. All-grade ELA slipped from 49.62% to 47.86% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, a 1.76-point decline. All-grade math also dipped slightly, from 49.29% to 47.8%, and now trails the district's all-grade figure of 56.01% by 8.21 points — a gap that widened from 4.10 points the year before, though district figures may include grade levels beyond the middle school. Science moved the other way, rising 1.87 points to 59.65%, slightly above the district.
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