Summary:
Zip code 46158 covers Mooresville, Indiana, and contains exactly one middle school: Paul Hadley Middle School, part of Mooresville Con School Corp. It serves grades 7–8 with 668 students, and because it is the district's only provider for those grades, there is no local peer school to compare it against — so the useful comparisons are year-over-year, grade-to-grade, and against Indiana as a whole. The available assessment data (ILEARN) spans the 2023‑24 through 2025‑26 school years.
The school's trajectory is the headline. Its state rank climbed from 176 of 491 to 106 of 486 in two years, moving its percentile from 64 to 78 and its rating from 3 stars to a consistent 4 stars — roughly the top 22% of ranked Indiana middle schools. It also outranks its own district, whose overall percentile is 72. Proficiency beat state benchmarks in every reported grade-level subject: ELA was 45.76 in 7th grade and 49.84 in 8th grade, and math was 40.27 in 7th and 46.65 in 8th, with the 8th-grade math margin of +12.45 points over the state the standout result. Both core subjects improved about 4–5 percentage points year over year. Chronic absenteeism, at 11.7%, is below the district's 13.3% and well below the state's 16.7%, while 45.06% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch and per-student spending was $10,752.
Two caveats are worth knowing. District "All Grades" figures span other schools and grade levels, so the district's higher math total is not a like-for-like comparison with this building. The very high Biology end-of-course result likely reflects a small, select group of students rather than a full grade. Overall, the story is momentum and consistency: rising rank, rising stars, rising proficiency, and strong attendance.
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