Summary:
ZIP code 47454 covers Paoli, Indiana, where the Paoli Community School Corp serves two schools: Throop Elementary School, an elementary building for grades K–6 with 693 students, and Paoli Junior & Senior High School, which covers grades 7–12 with 542 students — a combined enrollment of 1,235. There is no standalone middle school here; the junior-high grades sit inside the combined junior/senior high. The district overall ranks 240 of 374 Indiana districts, at the 36th percentile with 2 stars.
The two schools tell opposite stories. Throop Elementary ranks at the 48th percentile with 2 stars, above the district and well above the high school's 28th percentile and 1 star, and it leads on proficiency. Its bright spots include 6th grade ELA at 51.81% proficient versus a state 41.3%, 6th grade Science at 57.83% versus 41.2%, and 3rd grade Math at 54.88% versus 51.9%. Even so, results vary sharply by grade: 5th grade Math is 22.83% versus a state 42.0%, and 4th grade ELA is 25.51% versus 42.2%. Throop also has a higher free/reduced-lunch rate (51.66% vs 43.54%), larger classes (13.5 vs 11.7 students per teacher) and lower per-student spending ($10,928 vs $12,347).
Paoli Junior & Senior High is the reverse: strong on non-test measures, weak on tests. Its graduation rate is 96.7% against a state 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is 8.8%, below the district's 13.3% and the state's 16.7%. Yet in 2025–2026 every state comparison is negative — ELA 7 at −6.96 points, ELA 8 at −14.51, Math 8 at −12.41, SAT ERW at −14.67, and SAT Math at −12.83 (12.77% vs a state 25.6%). Biology EOC fell from 51.76% to 31.94% year over year. With no suppressed values or ranges in this data, families can read these as exact figures, though elementary and high-school rankings draw on different grade levels and test subjects, so the two are not directly comparable.
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