Summary:
ZIP code 46725 in Whitley County, Indiana is served by a single high school: Columbia City High School, part of Whitley County Con Schools. It enrolls 1,202 students in grades 9–12. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no local school-to-school comparisons to make; the most useful benchmarks are the school's own history plus district and state averages.
Academics are mixed. The graduation rate of 94.9% in 2024-25 matches the district and is 5.2 percentage points above the state's 89.7%. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing proficiency was 53.99% in 2025-26, above the district (53.79%) and the state (51.9%). SAT Mathematics is the clear weak spot: 23.19% proficient in 2025-26, below the state's 25.6% and down from 24.67% the year before. Biology improved from 40.14% to 42.07% in 2025-26, though in 2024-25 it was 5.46 points below the state's 45.6%, and no 2025-26 state figure is available for comparison. The gap between reading and math proficiency — 30.80 points in 2025-26 — is wider than the state's 26.3 points, making math the biggest academic imbalance.
Ranking history shows some cooling: 4 stars and 72nd percentile in 2023-24, then 3 stars and 64th percentile in both 2024-25 and 2025-26. Chronic absenteeism is 14.0%, better than the state's 16.7% but well above the district's 8.1%, so attendance looks like a distinct high school challenge. For context, 21.88% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch, spending was $11,466 per student in 2023-24, and the student-teacher ratio was 14.1 in 2024-25 — resource figures with no district or state comparison provided.
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