Best High Schools in Zip Code 46526

ZIP code 46526 in Goshen, Indiana is home to two public high schools serving different grade ranges: Goshen High School, serving grades 9–12 with 1,717 students as part of Goshen Community Schools, and Fairfield Junior-Senior High School, serving grades 7–12 with 944 students as part of Fairfield Community Schools. Because Fairfield includes middle grades while Goshen is high-school only, their middle-grade ILEARN results are not directly comparable.

Fairfield is the stronger performer on most high-school measures. It holds a 4-star rating and ranks 78th of 374 Indiana districts, with a school rank of 97th of 415 schools — the 77th percentile and 4 stars. Its graduation rate is 99.2% versus Goshen's 89.4% and the state's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 12.3% versus Goshen's 30.3% and the state's 16.7%. Fairfield's SAT EBRW and math proficiency are above the state in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, and its free/reduced-price lunch rate is 28.18%, well below Goshen's 61.21%.

Goshen is larger and shows clear improvement. Its school rank rose from 285th of 429 (2 stars) to 204th of 415 (3 stars), SAT EBRW rose from 37.91% to 43.75%, SAT math from 16.21% to 21.88%, and Biology End-of-Course proficiency from 36.32% to 43.81% — edging Fairfield's 42.77% in 2025–2026. Goshen's student-teacher ratio is slightly lower (15.0 vs. 16.6), yet per-student spending is nearly identical ($11,378 vs. $11,371), showing that spending level alone does not explain the outcome differences between these two schools.