Summary:
ZIP code 47368 contains just one high school: Monroe Central Junior-Senior High School, a grades 7–12 school in Parker City, Indiana, serving about 470 students as part of the Monroe Central School Corp. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no in-ZIP peer school to compare it against, and some district figures match the school exactly. About 42.34% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $12,112, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1.
The school's strongest year in the three-year window was 2024–25, when it ranked 180 of 429 schools (58th percentile, 3 stars). That same year, SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing came in at 56.9, above the state's 54.5. Grade 8 results in 2025–26 were essentially at state level: 43.42 in ELA vs. 44 statewide, and 34.21 in Math vs. 34.2. Its 89.7% graduation rate matched both the district and the state exactly, and its 24.7% chronic absenteeism rate was lower than the district's 28.8%.
Concerns center on recent slippage and on math. The school's rank fell to 213 of 415 (49th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–26, and reported proficiency declined in every subject with both years available — all-grade ELA from 39.88 to 33.54, all-grade Math from 36.2 to 29.75, Biology from 44.44 to 42.68, SAT ERW from 56.9 to 49.33, and SAT Math from 18.97 to 16. SAT Math trails the state badly (16 vs. 25.6 in 2025–26; 18.97 vs. 25.4 in 2024–25), and Grade 7 is a sharp gap, with ELA at 24.39 vs. the state's 41.7 and Math at 25.61 vs. 35.9. Chronic absenteeism, while better than the district, remains 8.0 percentage points above the state's 16.7%.
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