Summary:
ZIP code 46135 is home to eight public schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade across two districts — Greencastle Community School Corp and South Putnam Community Schools — with a combined enrollment of 2,775 students in four elementary, two middle, and two high schools.
Both districts are rated 4 stars, but South Putnam Community Schools ranks higher (#56 of 374) than Greencastle Community School Corp (#111 of 374). Standouts include South Putnam Middle School, which has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the ZIP at 6.5%, strong all-grade math proficiency at 48.4%, and the lowest per-student spending ($7,978); Central Elementary School, the biggest improver, rising from 2 stars and the 48th percentile to 4 stars and the 74th percentile, with science up more than 20 points; and Greencastle High School, holder of the strongest individual rank (81st percentile, 4 stars) and the top biology EOC result at 61.68%. South Putnam High School posts a graduation rate of 90.6%, above the state's 89.7%, though its SAT ERW fell from 59.76% to 43.04%.
Attendance is the clearest dividing line: every South Putnam school has chronic absenteeism below the state's 16.7%, while Greencastle High (24.0%) and Martha J Ridpath Elementary School (21.6%) are well above it. Ridpath, a K–2 school, has the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 70.62%, the lowest student-teacher ratio at 11.5, and $13,762 in per-student spending. Tzouanakis Intermediate School is the only 2-star school, with all-grade ELA at 32.82% and every grade level below the state. Both middle schools carry a subject gap — Greencastle Middle School at 19.47% in 7th-grade math and South Putnam Middle at 28.05% in 6th-grade ELA. Notably, spending does not track outcomes: the highest-spending school, South Putnam High at $14,711 per student, saw its latest SAT ERW fall below the state average.
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