Summary:
ZIP code 47460, covering Spencer, Indiana, is served by four public schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — all within the Spencer-Owen Community Schools district, with a combined enrollment of about 1,860 students. Elementary students make up roughly half of that total, high school students about a third, and middle school students the rest. The district as a whole is rated 3 stars, ranking 163rd of 374 Indiana districts (56th percentile), but that average hides wide differences between its individual schools, whose percentiles range from 39% to 76%.
McCormick's Creek Elementary School is the clear standout: it is the only school in the ZIP with 4 stars, ranks 241st of 1,015 elementary schools (76th percentile), and beats the district in every all-grade subject, including math at 56.65% versus the district's 41.07%. Spencer Elementary School is a mixed picture, ranking 518th of 1,015 (49th percentile, 2 stars). Its 4th grade is excellent — ELA 63.86%, math 65.06%, science 56.63%, all above district and state — but 5th and 6th grade lag well behind, and it has the ZIP's highest free/reduced-lunch rate (58.54%) and lowest per-student spending ($11,420). Compared with McCormick's Creek, Spencer trails by about 8 points in ELA, 15 in math, and 15 in science overall.
Owen Valley Middle School ranks 185th of 486 middle schools (62nd percentile, 3 stars) and has improved, with ELA above the district, but math is the ZIP's most urgent weakness at 28.09% all-grade — nearly 13 points below the district, with both 7th and 8th grade below state. Owen Valley Community High School shows the opposite split: a 98.5% graduation rate (well above the state's 89.7%) and better-than-state attendance, but weaker proficiency, including SAT EBRW at 41.43% and SAT Math at 17.86%, and a rank that has slipped from the 54th to the 39th percentile over three years.
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