Summary:
ZIP code 47040, which covers Rising Sun in Ohio County, Indiana, is home to exactly one public middle school: Ohio County Middle School, a grades 6–8 campus with 187 students and roughly 62 students per grade. It is the only middle school in the Rising Sun-Ohio County Com district, so school and district results at these grade levels describe essentially the same students. The district ranks 186th of 374 Indiana districts with a 3-star rating, and the school has sat in the middle-to-lower-middle of state middle schools over the past three years.
The standout strength families should know about is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 7.7% in 2024–25, under half Indiana's 16.7% and well below the district's 12.5%. The highest proficiency figure in the record is Biology end-of-course at 83.33%, though that likely reflects a small group of advanced 8th graders rather than the school as a whole. By 8th grade, students come within single digits of state averages in both English/language arts (37.74%) and math (26.42%), and the 8th grade is consistently the strongest grade in the building.
Mathematics is the clear academic challenge. All-grades math proficiency was 17.68%, less than half the district's 34.81%, and 7th grade math was under 10% against a state rate of 35.9%. ELA (31.71%), math, and science (35.71%) all declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26 while the district held steady or improved, and the state rank slipped from 238 (3 stars) to 325 (2 stars). Nearly half of students (47.59%) qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $9,343, and the student-teacher ratio is a strikingly low 9.9:1.
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