Summary
Indiana Digital Elementary is a K–6 school serving 2,125 students at 8707 W Hwy US 36 in Modoc, Indiana — a very small Randolph County community — and is one of two elementary schools in the Union School Corporation.
Academically, the school sits at the bottom of Indiana: it earned 0 stars in five of the last seven reported years and ranked 987th of 1,015 elementary schools (3rd percentile) in 2025–26, down from an 18th-percentile peak in 2020–21. Its proficiency rates are the lowest in its comparison group in every subject tested — 7.35% in English language arts, 6.26% in math, and 14.22% in science. Every grade level and subject falls far short of the state; the strongest single result, 4th-grade science at 15.53%, is still roughly a third of the state's 43.8%.
The most useful comparison is the school next door. Union Elementary School shares the same address, district, grade span, and nearly identical per-pupil spending ($9,689 vs. $9,717), yet serves only 161 students and posts 2 stars, with 25.0% ELA and 36.25% math proficiency — 17.65 and 29.99 points higher. Nearby schools spending in the same range, such as Selma Elementary School (59.49% math) and Cowan Elementary School, produce results four to nine times higher. Indiana Digital also reports 26.1 students per teacher, well above the nearby range of 12.8–17.6, and its per-pupil spending rose 87.6% (from $5,180 to $9,717) while its state rank fell. Its chronic absenteeism, 20.6% in 2024–25, is above the state's 16.7% but below Union Elementary's 23.5% and the district's 29.3%. Note that the free/reduced-lunch figure jumped from 26.29% to 76.38% in a single year, which likely reflects a change in how eligibility is counted rather than a real shift. Overall, the data point to a school performing at or near the bottom of the state, with no sign of improvement.
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