Union-North United School Corp

Union-North United School Corp is a small northern Indiana district serving 1,221 students across three schools: LaVille Elementary School (K–6, 649 students), LaVille Junior-Senior High School (7–12, 546 students), and Lancer Virtual School (7–12 virtual, 26 students). There is no separate middle school, so grades 7–8 are housed in the two secondary schools.

LaVille Junior-Senior High School is the standout, ranking 165 of 415 schools in 2025–2026 (60th percentile, 3 stars), a big jump from 34th percentile and 2 stars the prior year. Its graduation rate is 97.8%, above the district's 97.1% and the state's 89.7%, and its SAT reading/writing score is 54.32%, above district and state. Math is the weak spot: all-grades math is 19.62% versus the district's 31.78%, 8th-grade math is 13.16% versus the state's 34.2%, and chronic absenteeism is 20.3%. LaVille Elementary School is the largest school and the attendance leader, with chronic absenteeism of just 5.8% against the district's 12.2% and the state's 16.7%. Its math is stronger than its reading, with 6th-grade math at 42.55% and 6th-grade science at 43.62%, both above state, while ELA falls below state in grades 3–6.

Lancer Virtual School is a tiny, high-need outlier: 69.23% free/reduced lunch, 25.0% chronic absenteeism, $2,894 per-student spending, and a 52.0 student-teacher ratio. Its 91.6% graduation rate beats the state but trails the district, and many school-level test scores are not reported or suppressed, so those should be treated as unknown rather than zero. Across the district, attendance problems concentrate in grades 7–12, and reading is a broad weakness while math is mixed. Note that the district overall sits at 233 of 374 (38th percentile, 2 stars), which masks the junior-senior high's strong 2025–2026 showing. Metrics also span different school years, so year-to-year comparisons should be made cautiously.