Summary:
ZIP code 46506 has a single elementary-level school: Bremen Elementary/Middle School, a PK–8 building at 700 W South St in Bremen, Indiana, with 1,015 students in Bremen Public Schools. Because it is a combined elementary/middle school rather than an elementary-only building, its all-grade results include middle school grades, and there are no other schools in the ZIP to compare against — so any comparisons here are to district and state figures.
The school's clearest strengths are attendance and math. Chronic absenteeism in 2024–25 was 10.6%, below the district's 12.8% and well below the state's 16.7%, even though 51.92% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch. In 2025–26, all-grade math proficiency was 45.87% versus 37.71% for English language arts, and math came in above the state in grades 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 — including grade 3 at 61.11% versus 51.9% state and grade 8 at 42.74% versus 34.2% state. Early-grade reading was also solid, with grade 4 ELA at 50.93% versus 42.2% state and grade 3 ELA at 45.37% versus 40.8%. The district ranks 119 of 374 (68th percentile) with 3 stars.
The main academic weakness is middle-grade reading: grades 5–8 ELA were all below state, with grade 7 showing the largest gap (30.09% versus 41.7%). Grade 5 was below state in ELA, math and social studies, making it a concentrated area of need. Results also softened year over year — all-grade ELA fell 3.01 points and math fell 3.60 points, while science rose 0.52 points — and the school's rank slipped from 338 of 1,011 (67th percentile) to 451 of 1,015 (56th percentile) across three years, though it remains above average. Other context: per-student spending was $9,681 in 2023–24 and the student-teacher ratio was 15.9 in 2024–25.
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