Tell City-Troy Township School Corp

Tell City-Troy Township School Corp is a small southern Indiana district with just two schools serving roughly 1,351 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade: William Tell Elementary School (PK–6, 734 students, about 54% of enrollment) and Tell City Junior-Senior High School (grades 7–12, 617 students). There is no separate middle school and no alternative school. Districtwide, it ranks #129 of 374 Indiana districts — the 66th percentile, earning 3 stars.

The two schools have sharply different academic profiles. The high school's standout is English language arts: 56.87% proficiency across all grades, with 7th grade ELA at 55.24% and 8th grade ELA at 58.49%, both well above Indiana's averages of 41.7% and 44.0%. Its 96.1% graduation rate is 6.4 points above the state's 89.7%. The elementary school's clearest strengths are 5th grade social studies (47.47%, just above the state's 47.2%) and math across all grades (40.99%, slightly above the district's 39.19%). However, elementary ELA is a concern at 32.35%, below the district's 40.75%, and every tested elementary grade falls short of the state in ELA.

Attendance and resources also differ. Chronic absenteeism is 15.5% at the elementary school — better than both the district (17.2%) and state (16.7%) — compared with 19.2% at the high school. Per-student spending is $11,123 at the high school versus $9,957 at the elementary, and the high school's student-teacher ratio is lower (11.6 vs 15.2), though it serves a wider grade range. Both schools have slipped in the rankings over three years: the elementary fell from the 64th to the 45th percentile and from 3 stars to 2, while the high school went from the 65th to the 55th percentile but kept 3 stars. High school math and SAT results remain the main academic concerns.