Summary:
ZIP code 47016 is served by a single public school — Mount Carmel School, an elementary school for grades K–6 with 213 students in Cedar Grove, Indiana, and part of the Franklin County Community School Corp.
Because Mount Carmel is the only school in this ZIP code, there are no local peer schools to compare it against. The useful comparison is with its district and the state, and the school comes out well ahead on both. It has earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported school years and has ranked between the 81st and 85th percentile of Indiana schools over that span — 150th of 1,011 in 2023–2024, 192nd of 1,005 in 2024–2025, and 180th of 1,015 in 2025–2026. By contrast, the district as a whole sits at the 57th percentile with 3 stars.
Test results show the same pattern. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency at Mount Carmel was 51.72% in English Language Arts versus 37.58% for the district, 64.66% in Math versus 35.96%, and 61.11% in Science versus 36.88%. Sixth-grade Math was especially strong at 80%, compared with 38.46% district-wide and 40.2% statewide, and sixth-grade Science reached 75% against 32.56% in the district and 41.2% in the state. Mount Carmel exceeded the state in every reported grade-level comparison for that year, and all-grade proficiency rose across ELA, Math, and Science from the prior year. Attendance is also a bright spot: chronic absenteeism was 12.8%, below both the district’s 19.2% and the state’s 16.7%. About 37% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 14.6, and per-student spending is $12,736 for 2023–2024.
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