Summary:
Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club is the only elementary school in this area — a single-school district serving grades K–5 with 113 students in South Bend. Because the Success Academy at Boys and Girls Club district contains just this one school, district and school figures are identical, so the useful comparisons are against Indiana state averages and between grade levels inside the school itself.
The strongest result in the record is 4th grade Math, where 42.11% of students were proficient — the only grade-level score within about 10 points of the state's 52%. Science also improved, rising from 9.52% to 26.32% year over year, and 5th grade Social Studies went from 0% to 23.81%. The school's statewide rank has climbed three years running, from the 2nd percentile (2023–24) to the 3rd percentile (2024–25) and now the 13th percentile (2025–26), earning its first 1-star rating after two 0-star years.
There are real challenges. Chronic absenteeism stands at 32.3%, nearly double Indiana's 16.7%, and 68.14% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Proficiency is far below state in most grades: 5th grade ELA at 4.76% and 3rd grade ELA at 5% are the lowest results in the record, and 3rd grade Math (10%) and 5th grade Math (9.52%) trail the state by more than 30 points. Parents should also read these numbers with caution: with roughly 19–21 students tested per grade, each single student moves a score by about 5 points, so year-to-year swings may reflect one or two children. Overall, this is a small, high-need school in the bottom decile of Indiana elementary schools that is nonetheless improving.
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