Summary:
ZIP code 46122 — Danville, Indiana — is served by a single middle school, Danville Middle School, which educates about 870 students in grades 5 through 8 (roughly 218 students per grade) as part of the Danville Community School Corp, a 5-star district ranked 25th of 374 in Indiana (93rd percentile). With only one middle school in the area, there is no local comparison to make — but there is plenty to say about how this school performs against the rest of the state.
Danville Middle School has never fallen out of the top 16% of Indiana middle schools in three years of state rankings: 66th of 491 (87th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023‑24, 38th of 480 (92nd percentile, 5 stars) in 2024‑25, and 76th of 486 (84th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025‑26. On the 2025‑26 ILEARN, all-grade proficiency sat near 52% in English language arts (52.64%), math (52.31%), and science (52.81%). Those numbers look ordinary by themselves, but every one of the ten available grade-level comparisons beats the Indiana average — by as little as +3.98 points (8th grade ELA) and as much as +19.74 points (6th grade ELA). 5th grade math (+18.00 points) and 6th grade math (+17.38 points) are especially strong.
Two patterns are worth watching. First, performance slides as students move up: math falls from 60.00% in 5th grade to 41.92% in 8th, and ELA drops from 61.04% in 6th grade to about 48% in grades 7 and 8. Second, ELA, math, and science all declined from 2024‑25 to 2025‑26, and the school's rank dipped along with them. The one clear bright spot is 5th grade social studies, which rose from 44.04% to 52.50% (+8.46 points) and now sits above the state. Chronic absenteeism is a genuine strength at 13.3% — better than both the district (18.2%) and the state (16.7%) — even though 38.51% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school spends $11,072 per student with a 17.9:1 student-teacher ratio.
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