Summary:
ZIP code 46761 is home to a single middle school: Prairie Heights Middle School in LaGrange, Indiana, which serves grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 377 students as part of Prairie Heights Community School Corp. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no nearby schools to compare it with directly — the most useful benchmarks are the school's own prior years, its district, and Indiana state averages.
The school's strengths are in reading and social studies, and its overall standing is rising. All-grades English Language Arts proficiency climbed from 38.54% in 2024–2025 to 50.6% in 2025–2026, and every reported ELA grade level now sits above the state average, with grade 7 especially strong at 58.62% versus 41.7% statewide. Grade 5 Social Studies reached 60.63%, well above the state's 47.2% and up from 48.98% the year before, while Science proficiency of 46.88% outpaced the district's 41.35%. Chronic absenteeism is 15.0%, lower than both the district's 16.0% and the state's 16.7%. Reflecting these results, the school's state ranking improved from 249th of 480 (2 stars) in 2024–2025 to 203rd of 486 (3 stars) in 2025–2026.
Math is the clear weak spot, and it worsens in the upper grades. All-grades math proficiency is 23.8%, slightly below the prior year's 24.32% and far below the district's 35.38%. Grade 7 math is 15.52% against 35.9% statewide, and grade 8 math falls to 7.79% against 34.2% statewide — the most striking gap in the data. For context, 48.54% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $13,184, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.2. Parents should note that grade-level school and district figures are identical for most tested grades, indicating this school is the dominant provider of those results in its district.
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