Summary:
ZIP code 47245 in Hayden, Jennings County, Indiana, is served by exactly one public school: Hayden Elementary School, a K–6 campus at 55 S CR 685 W with 284 students, part of the Jennings County School Corporation. Because there is no middle, high, or alternative campus in this ZIP, families cannot compare schools side by side here — the meaningful comparisons are the school against its district and against the state of Indiana.
Academically the school is uneven rather than uniformly strong. Fourth grade is the standout: 60% proficient in math (8 points above the state), 50% in ELA (about 7.5 points above both district and state), and 46.67% in science. Third grade is the opposite — 22.86% in ELA and 37.14% in math, roughly 18 and 15 points below the state, and the widest negative gap in the record. Across all grades, the school beats its district in ELA (35.37% vs. 34.24%), math (46.26% vs. 42.27%), and science (42.47% vs. 37.36%). School-wide science rose 3.23 points year over year and 5th-grade social studies jumped from 36.73% to 46.15%, while ELA slipped 2.21 points and is below the state in three of four grade levels.
Attendance is the school's strongest result: chronic absenteeism is 12.4%, well below the district's 18.6% and the state's 16.7%. About 58.45% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $12,612, and the student–teacher ratio is 15.7. The school's state rank improved from 545 of 1,011 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 474 of 1,015 (53rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 — 71 places and 7 percentile points over two years, though the second year added only 1 point. Each grade holds roughly 40–45 students, so one student shifts a grade-level score 2–3 points; small gaps are noise, but the large 3rd-grade gaps are not.
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