Summary:
ZIP code 46574 contains exactly one middle school: Harold C Urey Middle School in Walkerton, Indiana, which serves grades 7–8 with 301 students and belongs to John Glenn School Corporation. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and Indiana state averages.
Academically, English Language Arts is this school's strength. In 2025–2026, 7th grade ELA proficiency was 45.89% (state: 41.7%) and 8th grade ELA was 49.29% (state: 44%) — both above Indiana's average. Math is the clear concern: 7th grade math was 33.56% (state: 35.9%) and 8th grade math was 32.14% (state: 34.2%), both below state levels. At the all-grade level, the school's math score was 32.87% versus the district's 46.85%, while all-grade ELA was 47.55% versus the district's 51.69%. That leaves a roughly 14.7-percentage-point gap between ELA and math at the school, compared with about 4.8 points across the district. Math also dropped sharply year over year, from 41.02% in 2024–2025 to 32.87% in 2025–2026, even as ELA held essentially flat (47.62% to 47.55%).
The school's rating has slipped recently. It ranked 111th of 491 (77th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 and 108th of 480 (78th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025, then fell to 162nd of 486 (67th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. The district overall ranks 60th of 374, in the 84th percentile with 4 stars. Chronic absenteeism was 14.2%, better than the state's 16.7% but above the district's 10.8%. About 46.51% of students receive free or reduced lunch, spending was $10,648 per student in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio was 14.6. In short: strong grade-level ELA, weaker and declining math, and a recent dip in overall standing.
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