Summary:
Zip code 47446 covers Mitchell, Indiana, where four public schools serve roughly 1,476 students across grades PK–12: two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, all part of Mitchell Community Schools. The district overall ranks in the 26th percentile of Indiana districts with 1 star, but the individual schools vary considerably from that overall picture.
Burris Elementary School is the academic bright spot, beating the district average in English language arts (28.96% vs 26.79%), math (35.33% vs 26.68%), and science (27.05% vs 25.44%), while posting the area's lowest chronic absenteeism at 6.6%. Hatfield Elementary School, which serves PK–2 and has no test scores or rank history, has the second-lowest absenteeism (7.9%) and the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (58.84%). Mitchell High School graduates 89.1% of students, essentially matching the state's 89.7%, and its Biology results rose from 30.77% to 44.58%; however, SAT math is only 9.57% versus the state's 25.6%. Mitchell Junior High School is the weakest by nearly every measure: highest absenteeism (14.9%), highest free/reduced lunch (66.96%), highest per-student spending ($39,480), and below-district results in ELA, math, and science.
The clearest system-wide concern is math. Eighth-grade math at the junior high is 10.38% versus the state's 34.2%, seventh-grade math is 15.45% versus 35.9%, and high school SAT math trails the state badly — suggesting a pipeline problem running from middle school into high school. Spending does not track neatly with outcomes, since the highest-spending school has the weakest results. Overall, Burris and Hatfield are relative strengths, Mitchell High is mixed, and Mitchell Junior High is the priority.
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