Summary:
ZIP code 46562, which covers the Pierceton area of Kosciusko County, Indiana, is served by exactly one elementary school: Pierceton Elementary School, a PK–5 school with 298 students in the Whitko Community School Corp. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the school's own year-over-year trend and how it compares with its district and the state.
The school's clearest story is recent improvement. Its state ranking rose from the 19th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 29th percentile in 2024–2025 and then to the 47th percentile in 2025–2026, when it earned 2 stars and ranked 542 of 1015 schools. Chronic absenteeism is a genuine strength at 13.6%, lower than the district's 16.3% and the state's 16.7%. Just over half of students (54.03%) qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending was $11,372 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.7 — a fairly contained setting that may support the school's momentum.
Academically, ELA is the bright spot: 43.55% of all students were proficient in 2025–2026, above the district's 39.39%, and 5th grade ELA reached 54.55%, above the state's 42.2%. Math is mixed at 42.28% all-grade, essentially even with the district's 43.70%, though every reported grade level falls below the state. Science is the biggest concern at 28.21%, well under the district's 40.38% and the state's 43.8% for 4th grade. Fifth grade social studies, at 43.18%, also trails the district's 70.65% and the state's 47.2%. With small grade-level cohorts, families should weigh multi-year trends more heavily than any single year's result.
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