Summary:
Zip code 46923 is home to three public schools — one elementary serving PK–5, one middle school serving grades 6–8, and one high school serving grades 9–12 — all within the Delphi Community School Corp district. Together they enroll 1,311 students. Delphi Community Elementary School is the largest with 625 students (about 48% of the total), followed by Delphi Community High School at 397 and Delphi Community Middle School at 289. The district as a whole ranks 203 of 374 statewide, in the 46th percentile with 2 stars.
The three schools differ most in attendance and rank trends. Delphi Community High School holds the best current school-level rank — 189 of 415, 54th percentile, 3 stars — but that has slipped from 79th percentile and 4 stars in 2023–2024. Its chronic absenteeism is 25.3%, more than double the district's 12.2% and above the state's 16.7%. By contrast, Delphi Community Middle School stands out with exceptionally low chronic absenteeism of 2.6% and a steady rank around the 44th–46th percentile with 2 stars each year. Delphi Community Elementary School has improved from the 32nd to the 40th percentile, though it remains at 2 stars.
Academically, English language arts is a shared pressure point. Elementary ELA is below district and below state in every reported grade; middle school ELA (33.22%) is above the district's 30.45% but below state in grades 6, 7, and 8; and high school SAT reading and writing (48.48%) trails the state's 51.9%. Math and science are more mixed: elementary 4th grade math (56.1%) and science (50%) beat state figures, while 5th grade math (23.71%) falls well below the state's 42%. The high school's Biology End of Course score of 48.91% is a bright spot, but SAT Math is 18.18% against the state's 25.6%. Spending also varies widely: $13,161 per student at the high school versus $9,205 at the elementary school.
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