Summary:
ZIP code 47041 is served by a single public school, Sunman Elementary School, an elementary campus serving grades K–5 with 327 students. Because the area has no middle, high, or alternative schools, there are no local school-to-school comparisons to make; the only meaningful benchmarks are the Sunman-Dearborn Com School Corp district and the state. The district is highly rated at 44th of 374 districts (88th percentile, 4 stars), while the school ranks 323rd of 1,015 schools (68th percentile, 3 stars) for 2025–2026.
The school's strongest signals are its improving rank and its math and science results. Rank moved from 443rd of 1,011 (56th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 357th of 1,005 (64th percentile) and then 323rd of 1,015 (68th percentile) — a 12-percentile-point gain, though it remains a 3-star school. In 2025–2026, 3rd-grade math was 70.45% and 4th-grade math 64.71% proficient, both well above the state's 51.9% and 52%, and all-grades math (57.86%) edged above the district's 56.01%. All-grades science was 60.78%, slightly above the district's 59.49%, with 4th-grade science at 60.78% against the state's 43.8%. Chronic absenteeism of 9.3% is far below the state's 16.7% and only slightly above the district's 8.7%. About 34.86% of students receive free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $14,254, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.4.
The clearest pressure point is 5th grade: ELA was 28.89% (district 53.65%, state 42.2%), math 37.78% (district 51.82%, state 42%), and social studies 46.67% (district 66.79%, state 47.2%). All-grades ELA is 42.86%, an 8.24-point gap below the district, and it slipped from 46.34% a year earlier while the district held near 51%. Science, by contrast, rebounded sharply from 39.22% to 60.78%. Overall: rising rankings, strong grades 3–4 math, solid 4th-grade science, and low absenteeism, offset by a real ELA weakness and a pronounced 5th-grade gap.
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