Summary
Hebron Elementary School is a K–5 school serving 462 students in Hebron, Indiana, a small community within MSD Boone Township. The district ranks 135th of 374 Indiana districts (64th percentile, 3 stars), but the school itself ranks 520th of 1,015 elementary schools in 2025–2026 — the 49th percentile, or 2 stars. That puts it below every nearby school with a current ranking: Solon Robinson Elementary School (96th percentile), Jerry Ross Elementary School (97th), Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School (90th), Winfield Elementary School (88th), Morgan Township Elementary School (87th), Kouts Elementary School (84th), Kankakee Valley Intermediate School (74th), and Boone Grove Elementary School (69th).
The dominant story is a steep four-year decline. Hebron sat at the 89th percentile with 4 stars in 2021–2022, then slipped to the 81st, 71st, 54th, and finally the 49th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026 — from top-quartile to below the state median. Common explanations don't fit: free/reduced lunch fell from 51.3% to 41.99%, per-student spending rose from $9,886 to $13,761, and the student-teacher ratio improved from 18.5 to 17.1. Chronic absenteeism, at 14.0%, is the highest among nearby schools (most range from 5.6% to 9.1%), though it stays below Indiana's 16.7%.
Grade-level results show where the trouble lies. Third grade is a bright spot: ELA 56.9% and math 67.24%, both above the state's 40.8% and 51.9%. Those gains don't hold — 4th-grade ELA is 33.33% (state 42.2%), and 5th-grade ELA is only 18.57%, far below the state and below every nearby school reporting it (47.78%–71.43%). Fifth-grade math is 31.43% versus the state's 42%. Fifth-grade social studies fell from 62.32% in 2022–2023 to 41.43%, now below the state's 47.2%. Science is less concerning at 50%, above the state's 43.8%. Notably, DeMotte Elementary School and Kankakee Valley Intermediate serve higher free/reduced-lunch populations yet outperform Hebron in ELA and math.
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