Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 47170

ZIP code 47170 is home to exactly one middle school: Scottsburg Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 with 556 students as part of Scott County School District 2. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the school's own district, the state of Indiana, and its own prior years. For 2025–2026, the school earned 3 stars and ranked 245th of 486 Indiana middle schools, placing it at the 50th percentile — squarely middle-of-the-pack. That marks a notable slide from 2023–2024, when it ranked 164th of 491 and sat at the 67th percentile, even though the star rating has stayed at 3 stars throughout.

Academically, the picture is mixed. English Language Arts is the weakest area: all-grade ELA proficiency was 31.61%, which is 6.40 percentage points below the district's 38.01% and well below the state at every grade level (6th grade was 12.15 points below state, 7th grade 13.05 points below, and even the strongest grade, 8th, was 7.16 points below). Math is stronger in the upper grades — 7th grade Math was 35.67% proficient versus the state's 35.9%, essentially at parity, and 8th grade Math was 33.16% versus 34.2%, about 1 point below. All-grade Math was 35.00%, still 6.90 points below the district. Science came in at 37.19%, 2.17 points below the district. Notably, proficiency fell in every tested subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — ELA down 4.91 points, Math down 5.00, Science down 3.40 — and the school's ELA and Math declines were steeper than the district's.

Chronic absenteeism is a significant concern: 26.7% of students were chronically absent, slightly above the district's 26.0% and far above the state's 16.7% — roughly 1.6 times the state rate. Since the district rate is also high, this appears to be a broader regional challenge. Context metrics show 53.6% of students receive free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending of $10,355, and a student-teacher ratio of 14.4, indicating substantial economic need, though the data provide no state or district comparators for those figures. Overall, this is a 3-star, middle-of-the-pack school with a recent downward rank trend, its brightest spots in 7th and 8th grade Math and its biggest challenges in ELA proficiency and attendance.