Summary:
ZIP code 46148 is home to a single middle school — Knightstown Intermediate School in Knightstown, Indiana — which serves grades 4 through 8 and enrolls 387 students as part of C A Beard Memorial School Corp. Because it is the only middle school in the area, families have no local comparison school; the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own prior-year results.
The headline is improvement. In 2025–2026 the school earned 3 stars and the 55th percentile (rank 221 of 486), up from 2 stars and the 39th percentile (294 of 480) in 2024–2025, and stronger than the district's overall 2-star, 45th-percentile listing (205 of 374). All-grade ELA proficiency climbed from 30.55% to 40.21%, now above the district's 39.47%. Science is mixed: all-grade science fell from 50.99% to 44.17%, exactly matching the district, yet 4th-grade science (44.16% vs. the state's 43.8%) and 6th-grade science (44.19% vs. 41.2%) both beat state results. Fifth-grade social studies rose to 45.12% but slipped below the state's 47.2%.
The clearest academic concern is middle-grade math. All-grade math is 35.39%, below the district's 38.46%, and proficiency declines steadily by grade: 46.75% in 4th, 42.68% in 5th, 34.88% in 6th, 25% in 7th, and 23.44% in 8th — with grades 7 and 8 roughly 11 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism is 17.4%, slightly above the state's 16.7% but below the district's 17.8%. Free/reduced lunch is 37.47%, per-student spending is $11,568, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.9.
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