Summary:
ZIP code 47112 in Corydon, Indiana is served by two middle-level schools — Corydon Intermediate School (grades 4–6, 487 students) and Corydon Central Junior High School (grades 7–8, 358 students) — both operated by South Harrison Com Schools, which ranks 96 of 374 districts statewide (74th percentile, 4 stars). Together they enroll 845 students and form a single sequential pathway rather than two competing schools, so families experience them as one continuous middle-grades experience.
The two schools look very different on attendance, despite nearly identical poverty rates (51.54% and 52.51% free/reduced lunch). Corydon Intermediate School reports chronic absenteeism of 11.3%, well below its district (18.9%) and the state (16.7%), and posts a strong 4th grade — 58.79% ELA and 60.61% math, both far above state. Corydon Central Junior High School earns 4 stars and a top-quintile state rank (100 of 486, 79th percentile), and beats the state in every grade and subject tested, yet its chronic absenteeism is 25.1% — more than double the intermediate school's and 8.4 points above the state.
Two patterns stand out for families. First, math is weaker than ELA at both schools (a 8.9-point gap at the intermediate school, 12.6 points at the junior high), and 5th grade math at 33.87% is the single weakest figure — 8.1 points below the state and below even its own district. Second, attendance drops sharply at the 6th-to-7th grade transition, a 13.8-point jump between two schools in the same town and district. Notably, the junior high spends more per student ($11,310 vs $10,282) and has smaller classes (14.6 vs 18.0 students per teacher), so the attendance and math gaps point to non-resource levers — attendance intervention and math instruction — as the highest-yield opportunities.
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