Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 46947

ZIP code 46947 is home to two middle schools serving sequential grade bands: Logansport Intermediate School (grades 5–6, 654 students) and Logansport Junior High School (grades 7–8, 641 students), which together enroll 1,295 students in Logansport Community School Corp, a district ranked 329th of 374 in Indiana at the 12th percentile with a 1-star rating. Both schools serve high-poverty populations, with free/reduced-lunch rates of 73.09% at the Intermediate school and 69.58% at the Junior High.

Neither school is a high performer against state benchmarks. At the Intermediate school, 5th- and 6th-grade ELA and math proficiency sit around 18–21%, while state rates are around 40–42%; 6th-grade science is 23.93% against 41.2% statewide, and 5th-grade social studies is 32.15% against 47.2%. At the Logansport Junior High School, 7th- and 8th-grade ELA rates of 25.33% and 24.24% compare with state rates of 41.7% and 44.0%, and math rates of 14.38% and 11.07% compare with 35.9% and 34.2%. Math is the Junior High's clearest weakness: all-grade math is 12.75%, below the district's 21.77%.

The relative bright spots are attendance and, for the Junior High, ELA. Chronic absenteeism is 10.2% at the Logansport Intermediate School — below the district's 14.6%, the state's 16.7%, and the Junior High's 13.4%. The Junior High's all-grade ELA of 24.79% is above the district's 22.91%, while the Intermediate school has the stronger math profile (19.48% vs. 12.75%), despite the Junior High spending more per student ($9,935 vs. $9,046) with a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (16.6 vs. 17.0). Rank histories differ in timing: the Intermediate school fell from 35th percentile and 2 stars in 2020–2021 to 23rd percentile and 1 star in 2022–2023, while the Junior High slipped from 24th percentile in 2023–2024 to 20th in 2024–2025 and 19th in 2025–2026. Because the two schools serve different grades, treat comparisons as broad indicators.