Summary:
Zip code 47460 (Spencer, Indiana) is served by a single middle school, Owen Valley Middle School, which teaches grades 7 and 8 to 321 students as part of the Spencer-Owen Community Schools district — so families here have one clear option, and the most useful comparisons are the school's own year-over-year progress and how it stacks up against Indiana averages.
Owen Valley Middle School is on an upward path. It ranks 185th of 486 Indiana middle schools — about the top 38% — with 3 stars for 2025-2026, up from 247th of 480 with 2 stars the year before, a jump of 13 percentile points. English/language arts is its strength: 47.49% of students are proficient, above the district's 45.32% and up nearly 10 points from 37.78%. Both grades beat the state in reading (47.62% in 7th vs. 41.7% statewide; 47.37% in 8th vs. 44%), and the two grades perform almost identically, which points to consistent instruction. Class sizes are small at 11.8 students per teacher, spending is $12,070 per pupil, and about 52.34% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
The main concern is math. Only 28.09% of students are proficient — well below reading, below the district's 41.07%, and below Indiana in both grades (29.93% vs. 35.9% in 7th; 26.32% vs. 34.2% in 8th). Math did improve slightly, from 26.03%, and the gap between the school and its district has stayed steady rather than widening, so this looks like a long-standing instructional pattern rather than a one-year dip. Chronic absenteeism is 17.6% — just above the district's 16.5% and the state's 16.7%, or roughly 1 in 6 students. Every figure in this record was reported outright, with no suppressed values and no rounded ranges.
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