Summary:
ZIP code 46051 in Lapel, Indiana, has one high school: Lapel Senior High School, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 462 students as part of Frankton-Lapel Community Schools. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP code, there are no local peer schools to compare; the most useful benchmarks are the school’s own prior years, its district, and Indiana statewide results.
Lapel Senior High School stands out for its 4-star rating in each of the last three years and a 2025–26 rank of 103 of 415 schools, placing it in the 75th percentile. Its rank has drifted down from the 85th percentile in 2023–24 to 79th in 2024–25 to 75th in 2025–26, but it remains a top-quartile school. SAT results are a clear strength: in 2025–26, 62.79% met the Evidence-based Reading and Writing benchmark and 35.66% met Mathematics, both above district and state levels. Its graduation rate is 94.9%, above Indiana’s 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 11.9%, lower than both the district’s 12.7% and the state’s 16.7%. The main academic concern is ILEARN Biology End of Course, where proficiency fell to 29.41% in 2025–26 from 39.64% in 2024–25 and was below the district’s 35.42%.
Contextual figures show about 31.17% of students receive free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 13.7:1, and per-student spending was $10,913 in 2023–24. Overall, Lapel Senior High School appears to be a relatively strong school within its district and state, with positive graduation and attendance outcomes and above-average SAT performance, even as Biology remains its clearest weakness and its rank trend is worth watching.
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