Summary:
Zip code 46117 covers Charlottesville, Indiana, and contains exactly one middle school: Eastern Hancock Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 299 students. It is the only middle school in the Eastern Hancock County Com School Corp, so there are no local peers to compare it against — the useful benchmarks are the school's own district and the state of Indiana. The school holds a 3-star rating in each of the three years on record, with a 15.8-to-1 student–teacher ratio, 36.12% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and per-student spending of $9,866.
The strongest result in the data is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 9.2%, better than the district's 10.3% and far better than Indiana's 16.7%. Math also clears the state bar at every tested grade — 6th grade 40.91% versus 40.2%, 7th grade 37.23% versus 35.9%, and 8th grade 41.58% versus 34.2%, a gap of more than seven points. Reading is the clear weak spot: English language arts falls below the state at all three grades, with 6th grade at 25% against a state mark of 41.3%, 7th grade at 32.98% versus 41.7%, and 8th grade at 35.64% versus 44%.
The most important trend is the school's rank history. It has slipped from the 65th percentile (170 of 491) three years ago, to the 62nd, to the 55th (217 of 486) in 2025–26 — a ten-point decline even though the 3-star rating never moved. Science also dropped from 49.47% to 38.64% year over year, though science is tested at only one grade level here, so that shift reflects one cohort rather than the whole school. Notably, the district's aggregate results outpace this building's, suggesting the elementary grades are outperforming the middle grades. Parents should read this as a school with strong attendance and solid math, and reading as the place to focus.
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