Summary:
ZIP code 46530 (Granger, Indiana) contains five public schools — four elementary schools serving pre-K through grade 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8 — all in the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp, with roughly 3,181 students and no high school inside the ZIP. All five earned a 5-star rating, and every one of them scores above its district average in every tested subject, so families here are choosing among strong options rather than hunting for the one good school in town.
The academic leaders are Prairie Vista Elementary School and Northpoint Elementary School, which rank 4th and 6th of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools. Prairie Vista posts the ZIP's highest scores in reading, math, and science and has the smallest classes (17.3 students per teacher); Northpoint is close behind academically but reports the lowest chronic absenteeism (3.2%) and the lowest poverty rate. Discovery Middle School ranks 3rd of 486 middle schools statewide, with exceptional 8th-grade results. Horizon Elementary School ranks lowest of the five overall (62nd of 1,015) yet has the third-highest math proficiency. Mary Frank Harris Elementary School ranks 98th of 1,015 — still the 90th percentile — with the largest classes (21.8 students per teacher) and the lowest per-student spending ($9,356).
Class size tracks achievement more closely than money does: the two top-scoring schools have the two smallest classes, the largest classes belong to the lowest-ranked school, and the spread in per-student spending is only about 12%. The clearest warning sign is Discovery Middle School's math performance — it is the only school here stronger in reading than math, and its math proficiency fell 3.96 points year over year while reading rose 6.86, with the softness concentrated in grades 6 and 7. Encouragingly, 5th-grade social studies improved at all four elementary schools, including a 17-point jump at Mary Frank Harris. Prairie Vista also carries the ZIP's highest absenteeism (10.1%) yet still leads academically.
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