Summary:
ZIP code 47394 in Winchester, Indiana is served by a single middle school — Lee L Driver Middle School — a grades 6–8 building with 316 students and the only middle school in Randolph Central School Corp, so the district's middle-grade figures and the school's figures come from the same students. Note that the data mixes years: test scores reflect 2025-2026, while attendance, free/reduced lunch, and class size reflect 2024-2025, and per-student spending reflects 2023-2024.
The school's clearest strengths are attendance and momentum. Chronic absenteeism is 15.9%, better than both the district (16.0%) and the state (16.7%). Its rank among Indiana middle schools improved from the 38th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 45th percentile in 2025-2026, moving from 304th of 491 schools to 266th of 486. Science is the strongest subject at 39.13% proficient, above the district's 36.81%, and ELA rose about 7.4 points year over year to 32.12%. The school also has a comfortable 13.2:1 student-teacher ratio and spends $11,075 per student.
The main challenge is math, which slipped about 3.9 points to 29.47% proficient — roughly 8 points below the district — and sixth grade is the point of greatest need. Sixth-grade ELA proficiency is 21.74% against a state figure of 41.3%, and sixth-grade math is 28.26% against 40.2%. Older students are closer to state norms: eighth-grade math is 32.73% versus 34.2%, and seventh-grade ELA is 36% versus 41.7%. Despite the improvement, the school remains below the Indiana median at 2 stars while the district holds 3 stars and a 49th percentile rank, and 50.32% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch.
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