Summary:
Zip code 46561 in Osceola, Indiana is served by a single school, Moran Elementary School, a K–5 elementary campus with 389 students in the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp; because there are no other schools in the zip code, all comparisons here are against its district and the state of Indiana.
Moran is a solidly above-average Indiana elementary school. It ranks 238th of 1,015 elementary schools statewide (77th percentile) for 2025-26 and has held a 4-star rating for three consecutive years, though its percentile has eased from 82nd in 2023-24 to the 76th–77th range. It clears the state proficiency bar in every tested subject and grade reported, often by wide margins — 5th-grade math is 18.61 points above the state rate and 5th-grade ELA 18.41 points above. Chronic absenteeism, at 10.3%, is 6.4 points below the state's 16.7%, the school's strongest state-relative figure. The tension in this record is that Moran trails its own district — a 5-star, 91st-percentile district — on every subject-area measure, by 10.66 points in ELA, 10.05 in Social Studies, 6.20 in Science and 1.98 in Math. Math is the school's most competitive subject; literacy and social studies show the widest gaps. Fourth grade is the soft spot, sitting 17.21 points below the district in ELA while only 2.09 points above the state, whereas the following year's 5th-grade results rebound sharply.
Year over year, ELA rose 6.78 points and Science 5.71, while Math slipped 3.90 points and 5th-grade Social Studies fell 4.55 — a decline that erased the school's only above-district result (2024-25 math). Families should note that with 389 students, a few children can move these percentages, and that test scores, absenteeism and spending figures come from different years. About 42% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $11,572 and the student-teacher ratio is 18:1.
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