Summary:
ZIP code 46392 is home to a single middle school: Kankakee Valley Middle School in Wheatfield, Indiana, serving grades 6–8 with 728 students as part of Kankakee Valley School Corp. Because it is the only middle school in the area, its results are best understood by comparing them to the district and to Indiana averages rather than to other nearby middle schools. The school is rated 3 stars, while the district holds a 4-star rating and ranks 93rd of 374 Indiana districts, in the 75th percentile.
Academically, the picture is mixed. In 2025–2026 ILEARN results, 39.12% of students were proficient in English Language Arts, 34.55% in math, and 36.32% in science, trailing the district in all three subjects. Math is the largest gap at more than 12 percentage points below the district. There are bright spots at the grade level: 7th grade ELA (43.38%) and 8th grade math (35.62%) both came in slightly above the state proficiency rates. Year over year, ELA was essentially flat and math improved slightly, but science dropped sharply by 6.6 percentage points, from 42.92% to 36.32%.
Other context may matter to families. Chronic absenteeism is 14.2%, better than the district's 14.7% and the state's 16.7%, which is a genuine strength. About 45.88% of students are identified through the free/reduced lunch measure, per-student spending is $10,097, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. One trend to watch: the school has held steady at 3 stars, but its rank percentile has slipped from the 63rd to the 60th to the 57th over the last three reported years, placing it 208th of 486 schools in 2025–2026. With only one middle school in the ZIP code, families have no local alternative within the same grade span.
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