Best Public Schools in Zip Code 46933

ZIP code 46933 covers Gas City, Indiana, and is served by three public schools — Mississinewa High School (grades 9–12, 760 students), Northview Elementary School (grades 2–5, 673 students), and R J Baskett Middle School (grades 6–8, 507 students) — all within the Mississinewa Community School Corp, which ranks 251st of 374 Indiana districts (33rd percentile, 2 stars). Total listed enrollment is about 1,940 students, and roughly 65.7% of them qualify for free or reduced lunch, so economic need is high across all three campuses. Note that the elementary school starts at grade 2, so no K–1 campus appears in this list.

Attendance is where the three schools diverge most. Northview Elementary has 10.0% chronic absenteeism, well below the district's 15.0% and the state's 16.7%, while the high school and middle school both sit at 20.4% — 3.7 points above the state. Northview also leads the ZIP in relative academics: its all-grade math score (40.98%) beats the district's 34.16%, and its 4th grade math result (49.38%) comes within a few points of the state's 52.0%, though most of its grade-level ELA, science, and social studies results still trail the state. R J Baskett Middle School has the smallest classes (13.5 students per teacher) and a striking Biology EOC result of 96% in 2025–26, but its 7th and 8th grade math scores are more than 11 points below state, so it is not a uniform strength.

Mississinewa High School is the biggest question mark: its 97.7% graduation rate is 8.0 points above the state's 89.7%, yet SAT ERW (38.65%), SAT Math (15.95%), and 2024–25 Biology EOC (12.64%) all fall far below state averages, and its rank slipped to 1 star and the 26th percentile in 2025–26. It also spends the most per student ($12,306) versus Northview's $10,543, so spending alone does not track with results. For families, the practical takeaways are that attendance is the clearest shared risk factor, math is weak from middle school into high school, and Northview currently offers the strongest day-to-day academic and attendance picture.