Summary:
ZIP code 47246 covers Hope, Indiana, and contains two public schools: Hope Elementary School, serving grades K–6 with 547 students, and Hauser Junior-Senior High School, serving grades 7–12 with 435 students. Both belong to Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp, which ranks 165th of 374 Indiana districts — the 56th percentile — with 3 stars. There is no standalone middle school; Hauser covers both middle and high school grades, and both buildings sit on N SR 9, so the district is geographically compact, with 982 students total.
The two schools get their results in very different ways. Hope Elementary is the math standout: 52.51% of students are proficient in math overall versus 27.22% at Hauser, and 3rd grade math reaches 67.65% against a state figure of 51.9%. Its chronic absenteeism, 16.0%, is below the state's 16.7% and the district's 19.5%. Its weak spots are 5th grade Social Studies at 26.67% (state 47.2%) and 4th grade ELA at 27.17% (state 42.2%). Hauser's bright spots are a 100.0% graduation rate, far above the state's 89.7%, and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing at 53.62% versus 51.9% statewide. But its chronic absenteeism is 24.1%, well above both the district and state, and its math is weak across ILEARN and SAT Math (21.74% vs 25.6%).
Both schools currently hold 3 stars with nearly identical rank percentiles — Hope at 58th, Hauser at 57th — though Hauser moved up from 2 stars in 2023–24. Spending and class size do not track simply with results: Hauser spends $13,406 per student and has a student-teacher ratio of 12.2, while Hope spends $9,752 with a ratio of 19.1. The clearest system-level pattern is the sharp math drop from elementary to secondary grades, alongside Hauser's high absenteeism.
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