Summary:
ZIP code 46970 covers Peru, Indiana, and contains four public schools — three elementary and one junior/senior high — serving 2,193 students in grades PK–12 across two districts, Peru Community Schools (three schools, 1,830 students) and Maconaquah School Corp (one school, 363 students).
There is no standalone middle school: Peru Junior/Senior High School serves grades 7–12 and is the largest school in the ZIP at 814 students. It also has the area's most extreme attendance problem — 42.7% chronic absenteeism, 2.6 times the state rate of 16.7% — even as it posted the biggest academic gains here, including Biology rising 13.85 points to 57.78%, the highest achievement figure recorded in this ZIP. Blair Pointe Upper Elementary moved the other way, losing ground in ELA, math, and science, dropping from 3 stars to 2, and sliding from the 50th to the 38th percentile. The two youngest schools have no test scores at all because their grades fall below Indiana's testing window. Elmwood Primary Learning Center is the calmest building — 11.1% absenteeism, the lowest poverty rate (46.83%), and the smallest classes (15.2:1). Pipe Creek Elementary School carries the heaviest load — 62.53% free/reduced lunch — yet receives the lowest per-student spending ($10,274) and has the largest classes (20.1:1), while its 14.1% absenteeism beats both its district and the state.
Reading is the shared weakness: Blair Pointe's grade-level ELA scores trail the state by 8 to 17 points, and the high school's 7th- and 8th-grade ELA lags by 6 and 10 points. Math splits by level — Blair Pointe's math beats its own district and 4th-grade math (47.93%) is near the state, while SAT math sits at just 14.85%. Graduation (87.8%) is the least concerning number at the high school, only 1.9 points below the state.
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