Summary:
Middle schools in ZIP 46356 include two schools in the Tri-Creek School Corporation in northwest Indiana: Lowell Middle School (grades 6–8, 498 students) and Lowell Intermediate School (grades 5–6, 486 students), together serving about 984 students. The district is a strong one, ranked 36 of 374 in Indiana — 90th percentile, 5 stars — and both schools share that context.
Both schools beat the state at every reported grade level. Lowell Middle School has the strongest ranking trajectory, moving from 165th of 480 with 3 stars in 2024–25 to 45th of 486 with 5 stars in 2025–26; its all-grade ELA rose 17.80 points and math 14.26 points year over year. Its largest grade-level edge is 7th grade math at +23.07 points over state. Lowell Intermediate School posted the highest single result in the extract: 5th grade Social Studies at 60.94% proficient versus 47.2% statewide, a +13.74 point gap.
In all-grade results, ELA is 56.41% at Lowell Middle School versus 50.19% at Lowell Intermediate School, while math is 53.42% versus 54.18%; the district's all-grade math figure is 60.24%, so both trail it even though grade-level math is above state. Chronic absenteeism at Lowell Middle School is 21.0% — worse than the state's 16.7% but better than the district's 28.4%. Free/reduced lunch rates are nearly identical (30.32% and 29.42%), and student-teacher ratios are high at 22.3 and 23.4. Note that Lowell Intermediate School has no rank, absenteeism, or spending data here, and the two schools' grade spans overlap at grade 6.
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