Summary:
ZIP code 46064 is served by exactly one public middle school, Pendleton Heights Middle School, which enrolls 730 students in grades 7–8 and is part of South Madison Com School Corp in Pendleton, Indiana. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no local middle-school peers to compare; the useful comparisons are to its district and to Indiana statewide averages.
The school is a standout: it has earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported years, and its state rank has stayed in the top 20% of Indiana middle schools—97th of 486 in 2025–2026, 82nd of 480 in 2024–2025, and 97th of 491 in 2023–2024. Its most distinctive metric is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 1.4% in 2024–2025, far below the district’s 7.7% and the state’s 16.7%. On 2025–2026 ILEARN grade-level tests, it is above the state average in all four reported rows: 7th-grade ELA 42.28% vs. 41.7%, 8th-grade ELA 53.01% vs. 44%, 7th-grade math 45.23% vs. 35.9%, and 8th-grade math 45.18% vs. 34.2%. Math at both grades and 8th-grade ELA are its strongest relative advantages.
Other data give context. In 2025–2026, all-grades ELA is 47.71% and math is 45.21%; the district reports 51.3% and 55.28%, respectively, though the district all-grades figures may include other grades or schools. In 2024–2025, all-grades ELA was 48.25% (district 47.06%) and math was 46% (district 55.4%). The school also reports 37.4% free/reduced-price lunch, $9,802 per-student spending in 2023–2024, and a 21.1:1 student-teacher ratio. Overall, this is a consistently strong 4-star school with exceptional attendance and clear grade-level math and 8th-grade ELA strengths; the main watch items are the all-grades math gap to the district and 7th-grade ELA, which is only slightly above the state average.
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