Summary:
Zip code 47162 is served by a single elementary school, New Washington Elementary School, a PK–5 school with 296 students in Greater Clark County Schools. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there are no local peers to compare against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and the state. For context, 51.01% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $10,367, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.5 to 1. These figures describe the school's setting; they do not by themselves explain its test results.
The school's clearest strengths show up in 5th grade and in math overall. Fifth grade ELA was 45.45% proficient, above the district's 34.55% and the state's 42.2%, and 5th grade math was 43.18%, also above both the district (37.22%) and state (42%). All-grade math reached 42.76%, ahead of the district's 38.86%. Chronic absenteeism is 17.3%, a full 10 percentage points below the district's 27.3%, though it runs 0.6 points above the state's 16.7%. Fifth grade social studies, at 36.36%, beat the district's 33.03% but trailed the state's 47.2%.
ELA is the main worry. All-grade ELA fell from 40% in 2024–2025 to 30.34% in 2025–2026 — a drop of 9.66 points — while the district edged up from 37% to 37.53%, leaving the school 7.19 points behind. Third grade ELA, at 20%, is about half the state's 40.8%. Fourth grade math (36.59%) sits 13.09 points below the district and 15.41 points below the state, and 4th grade science (31.71%) is 12.09 points below the state. Social studies improved to 36.36%, but the state climbed faster, widening that gap to 10.84 points. Statewide, the school slipped from 525 of 1005 schools (48th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025 to 630 of 1015 (38th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026.
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