Summary:
ZIP code 46742 covers Hamilton, Indiana, and contains just one high school: Hamilton Community High School, a combined junior/senior high serving grades 6–12 with 183 students, operated by Hamilton Community Schools. Because it is the only school in the area, families have a single option, and the school is also the district's sole provider for grades 6 through 8. The district as a whole ranks 209th of 374 Indiana districts, placing it in the middle-lower tier of the state.
The school's clear strengths are its outcomes in graduation and science. The graduation rate is 92.0%, above Indiana's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 14.5% — better than the state's 16.7%, though above the district's 10.0%. Classes are small, with a student-teacher ratio of 8.5:1 and per-student spending of $19,853 (2023-2024). Science is the standout: 6th-grade science at 44.83% is above the state's 41.2%, and Biology end-of-course reached 76.19%, up 36.19 points from 40.00% and well above the state's 2024-2025 Biology rate of 45.6%. ILEARN science rose 9.35 points year over year.
Math and English language arts are the weak spots. ILEARN ELA for grades 6–8 is 31.33%, against state grade-level rates of 41.3%–44.0%, and math is 21.69%, against 34.2%–40.2%, with 7th-grade math the lowest at 16.13%. Math trails the district by roughly 17 points. The widest gap appears on the SAT: 11th-grade math benchmark attainment is 9.09% versus the state's 25.6%, and reading/writing is 27.27% versus 51.9%. Rankings have swung from 51st percentile (3 stars) to 26th (1 star) to 40th (2 stars). With cohorts this small, one student can move results by several points, so single-year changes deserve caution.
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