Summary:
The schools in the Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club area come down to a single school: Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club, a K–5 elementary school with 113 students in South Bend, Indiana, that also serves as its own one-school district. The area has 1 elementary school, 0 middle schools, 0 high schools, and 0 alternative schools, so district figures and school figures are identical. Because it is the only option here, it is the default standout, and its story is one of recent improvement from a very low starting point.
The school has climbed in the rankings, moving from 992 of 1011 (2nd percentile, 0 stars) in 2023–2024 to 976 of 1005 (3rd percentile, 0 stars) in 2024–2025, then to 878 of 1015 (13th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026. On 2025–2026 ILEARN, all-grade Math reached 20% proficient and all-grade Science reached 26.32%, up from 13.79% and 9.52% the year before, while 5th grade Social Studies jumped from 0% to 23.81%. Still, every tested grade-level subject trails the state average. The strongest result is 4th grade Math at 42.11%, about 9.9 percentage points below the state figure of 52%, and 4th grade ELA at 21.05% is the school's best ELA grade. The weakest are 5th grade ELA at 4.76% and 5th grade Math at 9.52%, with 3rd grade ELA at 5% and 3rd grade Math at 10%.
Two factors stand out as the biggest challenges. Chronic absenteeism was 32.3% in 2024–2025, nearly double the state rate of 16.7%, and all-grade ELA has stayed essentially flat, at 10.34% in 2024–2025 and 10% in 2025–2026. The school serves a high-poverty population, with 68.14% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch, and it spends $11,203 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 16.1. Its district rank is 339 of 374 (9th percentile, 0 stars). The takeaway for families: this is a small, high-poverty school still near the bottom of Indiana rankings, but Math, Science, and Social Studies are improving, with 4th grade Math the clearest bright spot.
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