Summary
Dugger Union Community School Corp is a K–12 alternative public school/district in Dugger, IN, serving 559 students as a single-school district. No other schools are within 20 miles, so nearby-school comparisons are not possible; the most useful benchmarks are Indiana state averages and the school’s own five-year trends.
In 2024–2025, the graduation rate was 81.6%, compared with Indiana’s 89.7%—an 8.1-point gap and the school’s lowest rate in the five years shown. Earlier, the school was above the state: 90.7% vs. 84.9% in 2021–2022 and 89.7% vs. 85.4% in 2020–2021. Chronic absenteeism is a major concern: 31.5% of students were chronically absent, vs. 16.7% statewide, a 14.8-point gap. Free/reduced lunch was 61.9% in 2024–2025. Academic proficiency is substantially below state averages across most tested areas. In 2025–2026, ILEARN ELA all grades was 14.45%, ILEARN Math all grades 15.23%, and ILEARN Science all grades 19.4%. ELA grades 3–8 ranged from 7.89% to 20.83%, while state scores ranged from 40.8% to 44.0%; math grades 3–8 ranged from 0% to 35.42%, vs. state scores of 34.2% to 52.0%. Middle-school math was especially low: 6th grade 0%, 7th grade 6.67%, 8th grade 2.17%. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing was 31.58% vs. state 51.9%, and SAT Math was 0% vs. state 25.6%. Biology End of Course was 15.38%.
Some results improved but remain below benchmark: 5th-grade Social Studies rose to 36.73% from 25.81%, though state was 47.2%; SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing rose to 31.58% from 19.23%, still below 51.9%; all-grades Math improved to 15.23% from 11.49%. Science and biology declined. Per-student spending rose to $10,040 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio fell to 11.6 in 2024–2025, but these resource changes have not yet shown corresponding outcome gains. As an alternative K–12 school, context matters, but the largest gaps point to chronic absenteeism, middle-school math, high-school math/SAT readiness, and science/biology recovery as the highest-leverage areas for the Dugger Union Community School Corp district.
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