Summary:
ZIP code 46390 (Wanatah, Indiana) is served by exactly one school: Tri-Township Elementary School, a PK–6 building with 141 students in the Tri-Township Cons School Corp. Since there are no middle or high schools in this ZIP, families here go elsewhere for secondary school. The record for this one school is unusually deep, covering three years of rankings, two years of ILEARN results, and single-year figures for attendance, free/reduced lunch, spending and class size.
Attendance is the bright spot: chronic absenteeism is 6.8%, less than half the 16.7% state rate. Academics are the concern. The school's rank moved from 571 of 1011 (2 stars) to 474 of 1005 (3 stars) to 737 of 1015 (1 star) — three years, three different ratings. In 2025‑26, proficiency trailed the state in nearly every grade and subject: fourth-grade science came in at 14.29% against 43.8%, fifth-grade math at 20% against 42%, and fourth-grade ELA at 21.43% against 42.2%. Third-grade ELA matched the state at 40.91%, and the math gap there was the smallest of any grade. One year after beating its own district in ELA and math, the school now trails it in all three reported all-grades subjects.
Some context helps. The student–teacher ratio is 13.4 and per-student spending is $16,597, with 48.23% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch. Grade-level groups are small — roughly 14 to 25 students — so one student can move a reported rate by 4 to 7 percentage points, which explains part of the swing (fifth-grade social studies moved about 50 points in a single year). Grade 6 is served but not tested. Science and the upper grades are the clearest areas to watch, and a second year of data would help show whether this is a true decline or small-sample noise.
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