Summary:
ZIP code 46155 contains exactly one school — Mays Community Academy — a PK–6 elementary school in Mays, Indiana, serving 101 students and operating as its own single-school district, Mays Community Academy. Because the school ends at grade 6, families here must look outside the ZIP for middle school and high school. With only one school in the area, there is no local comparison to make; the meaningful benchmark is the state of Indiana as a whole.
Academically, Mays Community Academy trails Indiana in every reported grade-level comparison for 2025–2026 — all 11 of them across ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. The widest gap is 5th-grade Social Studies, where 9.09% of students were proficient against 47.2% statewide, a 38.11-point difference. Math is the biggest overall concern: 9.09% proficiency in 5th grade and 7.14% in 6th grade, with all-grade Math falling from 24.07% to 14.81% year over year. ELA held steady at 16.67% across all grades. Science is the one bright spot, improving from 14.29% to 24% for all grades, though it still sits below state benchmarks. Relative ranking has slipped as well, from the 25th percentile in 2023–2024 to 15th and then 11th in 2025–2026, while holding a 1-star rating; the district ranks 346 of 374, at the 7th percentile with 0 stars.
Context matters here. About 92.08% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and chronic absenteeism is 26.4% versus 16.7% statewide — roughly 1.6 times the state rate. Class sizes look manageable, with a 10.1 student-teacher ratio, and per-student spending was $13,454 in 2023–2024. The clearest priorities for families and staff are upper-grade Math, 5th-grade Social Studies, ELA across all grades, and reducing chronic absenteeism.
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