Schools in Zip Code 47327

ZIP code 47327 in Cambridge City, Indiana is served by Western Wayne Schools and contains two public schools — Western Wayne Elementary School, serving grades K–6 with 433 students, and Lincoln Middle/ High School, a combined middle/high school serving grades 7–12 with 306 students — together enrolling 739 students. The district is rated 176th of 374 Indiana districts, in the 53rd percentile with 3 stars, while both schools are rated 2 stars and rank near the middle of Indiana schools in 2025–26.

The two schools have opposite academic profiles. Western Wayne Elementary School is the math strength: all-grade math is 45.92% versus the district's 41.03%, with 3rd grade math at 52.54% and 4th grade math at 56%, both above the state. Its ELA, though, is below state at every tested grade, from -1.82 points in 3rd grade to a sharper -9.48 points in 6th grade. Lincoln Middle/ High School is the reverse, with all-grade ELA at 42.86% versus the district's 39.19% and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing at 54.55% versus the state's 51.9%, but all-grade math at 28.57% versus the district's 41.03%.

The most pressing concerns are math progression and attendance. Lincoln's SAT Math is 6.82% against the state's 25.6%, a gap of 18.78 percentage points, and chronic absenteeism is 27.6% at the high school and 21.2% at the elementary school, both above the state's 16.7%. Fifth grade social studies fell to 30.23% from 39.22%, well below the state's 47.2%. Positives include Lincoln's 92.4% graduation rate versus the state's 89.7%, Biology EOC rising from 40.54% to 47.73%, and year-over-year gains in high school math and ELA. Free/reduced-price lunch is similar at both schools, at 56.58% and 57.52%.