Summary:
Wabash City Schools in Wabash, Indiana serves its youngest students through two elementary buildings that together form a single PK–4 pipeline: LH Carpenter Early Learning Center for prekindergarten and kindergarten (176 students) and O J Neighbours Elementary School for grades 1–4 (385 students), for a combined listed enrollment of 561. The district ranks 266 of 374 in Indiana with a 1-star rating, but that figure reflects schools outside this elementary list — no middle or high school data appears here.
O J Neighbours Elementary School is the only one of the two with published test scores and rank history, because PK–K students are not tested. Its standout number is chronic absenteeism of 14.0% — below the state's 16.7% and well below the district's 23.1%. It also outperforms its own district in Math (30.61% vs. 28.09% proficient) and Science (33.93% vs. 31.63%), while trailing in English language arts (31.63% vs. 35.70%). Results split sharply by grade: 4th-grade ELA (39.82%) is close to the state's 42.2%, but 3rd-grade ELA (20.48%) falls far below it, and 4th-grade Math (27.43%) is the weakest figure in the data, 24.57 points under the state. Math and Science both slipped from the prior year, with Science down 8.24 points.
LH Carpenter Early Learning Center has no test scores or star rating by design. Its absenteeism (19.5%) beats the district but sits above the state, and its student-teacher ratio of 27:1 is nearly double O J Neighbours' 14.5:1, while spending $8,472 per student versus $10,780. Poverty rates are nearly identical at both schools (66.48% and 68.05%). Notably, the district's youngest learners are in the largest classes with the smallest per-pupil investment.
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