Summary:
Zip code 47529 is home to one high school, North Daviess Junior-Senior High School, serving grades 7-12. This public high school is part of the North Daviess Com Schools district.
North Daviess Junior-Senior High School has an enrollment of 457 students and a student-teacher ratio of 13:1, with a spending per student of $13,922. The school boasts a strong four-year graduation rate of 88.4%. Academically, the school shows proficiency in English Language Arts (ELA), with 41.77% overall proficiency in the 2024-2025 school year, which is slightly above the district average. In 7th grade ELA, proficiency was 41.89%, matching the district average and exceeding the Indiana average. Similarly, 8th grade ELA proficiency was 41.67%, matching the district average and slightly exceeding the Indiana average. SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing scores are also a strength, with 63.51% proficiency in 2024-2025, exceeding the Indiana average.
However, mathematics proficiency presents a significant area for improvement. Overall math proficiency was 18.35% in the 2024-2025 school year, considerably lower than the district average. This trend is also evident in specific grades, with 7th-grade math proficiency at 25.68% and 8th-grade math proficiency at 11.9%, both below Indiana averages. SAT Mathematics proficiency was 16.22% in 2024-2025, well below the Indiana average. The school's chronic absenteeism rate is 17.8%, and nearly half of the students (49.45%) qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating a student population with notable socioeconomic needs. The school's statewide ranking has been relatively stable, generally within the top 150-200 high schools in Indiana over the past three years.
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