Summary:
ZIP code 47394, which covers Winchester, Indiana, contains two elementary schools — O R Baker Elementary School (grades PK–2, 303 students) and Willard Elementary School (grades 3–5, 232 students) — both in the Randolph Central School Corp district, and together they enroll 535 students and cover the full PK–5 span.
The two schools look quite different on attendance, poverty, and spending. Willard Elementary School has a notably low chronic absenteeism rate of 6.1%, well below the district's 16.0% and the state's 16.7%. O R Baker Elementary School has the opposite profile: 20.6% chronic absenteeism, above both district and state. Yet O R Baker has a lower free/reduced lunch rate (30.03% versus Willard's 55.17%), lower per-student spending ($8,968 versus $10,415, about 16.1% less), and a slightly smaller student-teacher ratio (12.8 versus 13.6). The Randolph Central School Corp district itself is mid-range statewide, ranked 189 of 374 districts, at the 49th percentile with 3 stars.
For academics, only Willard Elementary School has test results, since O R Baker Elementary School serves PK–2. Willard is rated 2 stars and 40th percentile in 2025–2026 (613 of 1015), down from the 44th percentile in 2023–2024. Its ILEARN results are mixed: all-grade Math (39.67%) beats the district (37.56%), and 5th grade Social Studies (48.78%) beats the state (47.2%), up about 10.9 points from 37.84% a year earlier. But 4th grade ELA (24% versus the state's 42.2%) and 4th grade Math (36% versus 52%) lag well behind. Parents should weigh attendance and resource differences alongside these uneven subject results.
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