Summary:
ZIP code 46962 — North Manchester, Indiana — is served by exactly one public high school: Manchester Junior-Senior High School, part of Manchester Community Schools. The school serves grades 7–12 with an enrollment of 618 students. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP, the most useful comparisons are to its own district and to the state of Indiana.
The school's strengths center on graduation and math. Its 2024–25 graduation rate of 97.3% matched the district and came in 7.6 percentage points above the state rate of 89.7%. Math scores beat the state in both years of SAT testing — 32.63 versus 25.4 in 2024–25 and 26.85 versus 25.6 in 2025–26 — and also in grade 7 ILEARN Math (36.56 vs. 35.9) and grade 8 ILEARN Math (35.56 vs. 34.2). Biology End-of-Course proficiency was 47.31 in 2024–25 against a state figure of 45.6, then rose to 49.51 in 2025–26. In rankings, 2024–25 was the strongest recent year: 119 of 429 schools, 72nd percentile, 4 stars. In 2025–26 the school placed 147 of 415, in the 65th percentile, with 3 stars — a slip, but still above average.
Reading and attendance are the areas to watch. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing fell short of the state both years (50.53 vs. 54.5, then 45.37 vs. 51.9). Grade 7 ELA was 39.78 versus a state 41.7, while grade 8 ELA was 43.96, essentially at the state's 44.0. Chronic absenteeism stood at 17.7% in 2024–25, above the district's 11.8% and slightly above the state's 16.7%. For context, 46.93% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending was $11,149 in 2023–24, and the student-teacher ratio was 15.9 in 2024–25.
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