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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 47145


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233
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Top rankedEast Crawford Elementary School193rd of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools
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Biggest riser
East Crawford Elementary School up 59 spots statewide this year
Summary:

ZIP code 47145 (Milltown, Indiana) is served by exactly one listed public school: East Crawford Elementary School, an elementary school covering grades PK–5 with 233 students, part of Crawford County Community School Corp. The area summary shows 0 middle schools, 0 high schools, and 0 alternative schools, so families here attend elementary school locally and move elsewhere afterward. Since it is the only school in the ZIP, there are no in-ZIP comparisons to make.

East Crawford's statewide results are consistently strong. It ranked 193 of 1,015 schools in 2025–2026 (81st percentile, 4 stars), 252 of 1,005 in 2024–2025 (75th percentile, 4 stars), and 171 of 1,011 in 2023–2024 (83rd percentile, 4 stars), keeping it in the top quarter of ranked Indiana schools each year. By contrast, the district sits at 198 of 374 districts (47th percentile, 2 stars). In 2025–2026 ILEARN results, the school outperformed the district in every reported all-grade subject: ELA 53.77% vs 40%, math 66.04% vs 51.81%, and science 60.47% vs 41.21%. Fourth grade math was the standout at 81.4%, roughly 29 points above the state, and all-grade science rose 10.47 points year over year.

Chronic absenteeism is a relative strength at 12.0%, below the district's 12.7% and well under the state's 16.7%. That matters given 59.23% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, with per-student spending of $11,910 and a student-teacher ratio of 16.2. The clearest improvement area is 3rd grade ELA at 33.33%, above the district's 20.24% but below the state's 40.8%. Note that metrics come from different years—spending from 2023–2024, absenteeism and lunch data from 2024–2025, and test scores from 2024–2025 and 2025–2026.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Indiana Department of Education.

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