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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 47138


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Top rankedLexington Elementary School158th of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Lexington Elementary School up 21 spots statewide this year
Summary:

ZIP code 47138 is served by a single public school, Lexington Elementary School, an elementary campus serving grades PK–5 with 205 students in Scott County School District 2; there are no middle, high, or alternative schools listed in this ZIP code, so families here feed into a single elementary option before moving on to schools outside the area.

Lexington Elementary is a 4-star school in each of the last three rank-history years, and in 2025–2026 it ranked 158 of 1,015 Indiana schools, landing in the 84th percentile. That is well above its district, which is ranked 123 of 374 with 3 stars and a 67th percentile. On ILEARN, the school beat the district in every reported subject: 62.24% vs 38.01% in all-grade English Language Arts, 61.22% vs 41.9% in Math, and 50% vs 39.36% in Science. It also exceeded state proficiency rates in every grade-level result where state figures were available. The biggest bright spots were 5th grade Social Studies at 82.05% (district 52.86%, state 47.2%), 3rd grade Math at 72.41%, 5th grade ELA at 71.79%, and 3rd grade ELA at 68.97%. The narrowest advantage over the state came in 4th grade, where ELA was 43.33% vs 42.2% and Math 53.33% vs 52%.

Year over year, all-grade ELA rose slightly to 62.24%, Math held roughly flat at 61.22%, Social Studies jumped 25.53 points to 82.05%, while Science slipped from 57.89% to 50% — a reasonable area to watch, though the school stayed above the district and the reported state 4th grade Science rate. Attendance is a clear strength: chronic absenteeism is 16.1%, below the district's 26.0% and the state's 16.7%, even with 56.59% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Per-student spending was $13,732 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio was 12.4 in 2024–2025.

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