Summary:
The 46182 zip code area has only one high school, Waldron Junior-Senior High School, which serves grades 6-12. This school has a student population of 298, with a racial makeup of 96.31% White, 0.34% African American, and 3.36% Hispanic. While the school has a strong 97.0% four-year graduation rate, it faces challenges with a relatively high chronic absenteeism rate of 14.3%.
Academically, Waldron Junior-Senior High School has a mixed performance, ranking 105 out of 431 Indiana high schools with a 4-star rating. The school's proficiency rates in ILEARN English Language Arts and Math vary across grade levels, with 6th grade ELA proficiency above state and district averages, but 7th and 8th grade ELA and Math proficiency below. On the SAT, the school's 11th grade students perform better in Evidence-based Reading and Writing (65.12% proficient) than in Mathematics (20.93% proficient).
The school serves a community with significant economic challenges, as 47.32% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Despite this, Shelby Eastern Schools, the district that Waldron Junior-Senior High School is a part of, is ranked 122 out of 381 districts in Indiana and has a 3-star rating. The school itself spends $12,187 per student, which is above the state average, and has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.2.
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