Summary:
Tippecanoe Valley School Corp is a small Indiana district with four schools—two elementary, one middle, and one high school—serving PK–12 students across about 1,738 total enrollment, with relatively high poverty and a district rank of 164th of 374 (56th percentile, 3 stars). Its schools are Akron Elementary School, Mentone Elementary School, Tippecanoe Valley Middle School, and Tippecanoe Valley High School.
The clearest standout is Mentone Elementary School, which ranks 320th of 1,015 elementary schools (68th percentile, 3 stars) and improved from the 57th to 61st to 68th percentile. Its all-grade proficiency is above district averages in ELA (46.43% vs 39.71%), math (56.12% vs 39.58%), and science (58.49% vs 39.18%), and it has the district’s lowest chronic absenteeism at 6.7% despite the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 59.38%. Tippecanoe Valley Middle School improved from 44th percentile/2 stars to 59th percentile/3 stars, with ELA at 41.58% above district, but math (33.93%) and science (35.16%) below district; its reported Biology EOC proficiency is unusually high at 80.00% in 2025–2026 and 85.19% in 2024–2025. Tippecanoe Valley High School has a 97.7% graduation rate vs 89.7% statewide, slightly above-state SAT math, slightly below-state SAT ELA, and Biology EOC at 33.02%, improved from 17.44%.
Akron Elementary School is the negative standout, falling from 54th percentile/3 stars to 29th percentile/1 star, with ELA 28.00%, math 33.71%, and science 31.25%, all below district averages; its math all-grade proficiency dropped 12.53 points. It has similar free/reduced lunch, spending, and class size to Mentone Elementary School, so the outcome gap is striking. Across the district, three schools improved their rank while Akron Elementary School declined. Chronic absenteeism is below the state’s 16.7% in every school, though Tippecanoe Valley High School’s 13.7% is the district’s highest. Math is a recurring weak spot, and per-student spending does not track neatly with results; Akron Elementary School spends the most but has the weakest current outcomes, while Tippecanoe Valley Middle School spends the least.
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