Schools in Zip Code 47516

ZIP code 47516 is home to a single school: North Knox Intermediate, an elementary school in Bruceville, Indiana serving grades 3–6 with 370 students as part of North Knox School Corp. Because it is the only school in the area, there is no cross-school comparison to make — the useful context comes from how the school performs over time, against its district, and against Indiana state averages.

North Knox Intermediate holds a 2-star rating and ranked 578th of 1,015 schools in 2025–2026, placing it at the 43rd percentile. That is an improvement from the 38th percentile in 2024–2025, but still below its 2023–2024 mark of 48. The district ranks 254th of 374 districts, at the 32nd percentile. The school's clearest academic weakness is math: every tested grade fell below the state average in 2025–2026, declining from 46.07% proficiency in 3rd grade to 25.26% in 6th grade. The 4th-grade gap was especially wide, 34.12% versus a 52% state average. English Language Arts is more encouraging — all-grades ELA rose from 31.79% to 38.76%, beating the district's 36.45%, with 5th grade at 48.28% against a 42.2% state average.

Fifth-grade Social Studies posted the biggest year-over-year gain, climbing from 35.05% to 48.28% and moving from below state to slightly above it. Science, at 35.2% overall, matched the district but trailed the state at both 4th and 6th grades. On non-academic measures, the school looks solid: chronic absenteeism was 16.8%, essentially level with the state's 16.7% and 2.8 points better than the district's 19.6%. About 57.3% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending was $9,375, and the student-teacher ratio was 15.4 to 1.