Summary:
ZIP code 47542 covers Huntingburg, Indiana, and contains five schools serving roughly 1,989 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Four of them — Huntingburg Elementary School, Southridge High School, Southridge Middle School, and Southridge Alternative Learning Center — belong to Southwest Dubois County School Corp, which enrolls about 90% of local students. The fifth, Cedar Crest Intermediate School, belongs to Southeast Dubois County School Corp.
Cedar Crest Intermediate School is the academic standout: it posts the ZIP code's highest all-grade proficiency (ELA 61.54%, Math 69.23%, Science 68.97%) and beats state benchmarks in every grade-level subject shown. Southridge Middle School is the strongest Southwest Dubois school, with 4-star rankings, 8th-grade Math at 67.67%, and the lowest student-teacher ratio (15.6) among comprehensive schools. Southridge High School shows a split profile: a 93.4% graduation rate and SAT Reading/Math above state, but Biology EOC at only 26.47%, well below the district's 43.38%. Huntingburg Elementary School is the largest school and is improving, moving from the 41st to the 53rd percentile, though its all-grade results still trail district averages.
Chronic absenteeism ranges from 1.0% at Cedar Crest Intermediate School to 14.7% at Southridge High School — every reporting school is below the state's 16.7%. Free/reduced lunch runs from 34.9% at Cedar Crest to 61.17% at Huntingburg Elementary, and per-student spending ranges from $8,744 at Huntingburg to $11,256 at Southridge High, so higher spending does not track with stronger results here. Note that Southridge Alternative Learning Center has just 14 students, a 4.3 student-teacher ratio, and no school-level test, spending, or attendance figures shown; with such a small enrollment those values are likely suppressed, so it should be treated as unknown rather than low-performing.
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