Best Public Schools in Zip Code 46126

ZIP code 46126, covering Fairland, Indiana, is served by three public schools in the Triton Central Schools district: Triton Central Elementary School (PK–4), Triton Central Middle School (5–8), and Triton Central High School (9–12). Together they enroll 1,414 students, and the district ranks 91st of 374 Indiana districts — the 76th percentile, 4 stars.

Triton Central Elementary School has the strongest current school-level standing of the three, at the 74th percentile with 4 stars, up from 3 stars two years earlier. Its math results are the clearest bright spot in the area: all-grades math is 68.89% versus the district's 48.15%, and 3rd-grade math is 76.67% versus the state's 51.9%. Science, however, fell from 51.49% to 35.56% in a year and is below the district and state. It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 11.2%. Triton Central Middle School stands out in 5th-grade social studies at 67.01% versus the state's 47.2%, a jump of about 20 points, and has the smallest classes (student-teacher ratio 12.3). But its rank slipped to the 65th percentile, 3 stars, and math lags at 38.56% versus the district's 48.15%, with 7th-grade math at 28.72% versus the state's 35.9%.

Triton Central High School posts a 94.5% graduation rate, above the state's 89.7%, and SAT math of 33.04% versus the state's 25.6%. Its rank, though, is volatile — from the 90th percentile with 5 stars in 2024–2025 down to the 67th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026 — alongside declines in Biology EOC (60.67% to 40.79%) and SAT ERW (66.67% to 51.3%). It also has the area's highest chronic absenteeism at 18.6%, above the district's 14.2% and the state's 16.7%. Notably, the elementary has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (44.96%) but the lowest absenteeism, while the high school has the lowest lunch rate (34.75%) yet the highest absenteeism, suggesting attendance issues at the high school stem from factors beyond poverty alone.