Summary:
ZIP code 46539 — Mentone, Indiana — contains just one elementary school, Mentone Elementary School, which serves students in grades PK through 5, enrolls 384 children, and belongs to Tippecanoe Valley School Corp.
Because this ZIP has only one school, the useful comparisons are the school against its district and the state. Academically, the school outperforms its district in every subject and every grade tested: all-grades math proficiency is 56.12% versus the district's 39.58%, science is 58.49% versus 39.18%, and English language arts is 46.43% versus 39.71%. Against state benchmarks the results are mostly strong but not uniform — 3rd grade math leads the state by 12.8 points and 4th grade science by 14.7 points, while 5th grade ELA is only 0.5 points ahead and 5th grade social studies trails the state (42.67% vs. 47.2%), the only measure where the school falls short. Scores improved year over year in all three core subjects, including a 10.7-point gain in science.
The school's trajectory points steadily upward: its state rank rose from 437th of 1,011 (57th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 320th of 1,015 (68th percentile) in 2025–2026, with three consecutive 3-star ratings. Chronic absenteeism is 6.7%, below the district's 9.4% and less than half the state's 16.7%, and the student–teacher ratio is 13.2. About 59.38% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, and per-student spending was $10,939 (2023–2024, an older year than the other figures). With a single school in the area, no in-area comparison is possible.
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