Summary:
Taylor Community School Corp has only one middle school, Taylor Middle School, which serves grades 5-8. The school is currently ranked 337 out of 480 Indiana middle schools for the 2024-2025 school year, with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating its performance is significantly below state averages.
Taylor Middle School has seen a declining rank over the past few years, going from 375 out of 485 schools in 2023-2024 to 386 out of 489 schools in 2022-2023. The school's academic performance is below state averages across multiple subjects and grade levels, with English Language Arts proficiency ranging from 23.08% to 41.3% and Math proficiency ranging from 10.87% to 20%, compared to state averages of 37.9% to 42.7% and 34.5% to 41.5%, respectively. Additionally, the school has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 17.8% for the 2023-2024 school year.
Despite the lower academic performance, Taylor Middle School has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.5 and higher spending per student of $10,761, which is above the state average. These factors suggest a need to evaluate the effectiveness of resource allocation and teaching strategies to improve educational outcomes for the school's students, who come from a relatively low-income background, with 50.54% receiving free or reduced-price lunch.
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