Summary:
ZIP code 47404 in Bloomington, Indiana is served by exactly one middle school: Tri-North Middle School, a grades 7–8 campus with 569 students in Monroe County Community School Corp. With only one school in the area, the useful comparisons are against the district, the state, and the school's own past. It is a relatively high-need but well-resourced building: about 44.64% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, spending runs $14,672 per student, and the student–teacher ratio is 14.4 to 1 — roughly 40 teachers for about 285 students per grade.
On 2025–26 ILEARN results, the clearest strength is seventh grade. There, 48.32% of students were proficient in English language arts — above the district's 47.21% and 6.6 points above the state's 41.7% — while 41.18% were proficient in math, 5.3 points above the state. The clearest weakness is eighth grade math: 33.45% proficiency trails the district (43.61%) by 10.2 points and sits just under the state (34.2%). Eighth grade ELA (38.91%) also lands below the district (42.73%) and state (44%). Overall the school posts 43.27% in ELA and 37.04% in math, trailing its district by far more in math than in ELA. One caveat for parents: the district's all-grades figures cover grades 3–8, so they are not a perfect match for this 7–8 campus.
The school has slipped recently. Its statewide rank fell from the 87th percentile in 2023–24, to the 75th in 2024–25, to the 66th in 2025–26, and its star rating dropped from 4 to 3. Math drove that slide, falling 6.2 points year over year while ELA edged up 0.9. Chronic absenteeism stands at 22.6%, well above the district's 17.7% and the state's 16.7% — roughly one in four students misses enough school to be flagged. In short: a solid but sliding mid-to-upper-tier school with genuine seventh grade momentum and one specific, isolable problem in eighth grade math.
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