Best Public Schools in Zip Code 47551

ZIP code 47551 covers the Leopold, Indiana area and contains two public schools — Perry Central Elementary School (grades PK–6, 734 students) and Perry Central Junior-Senior High School (grades 7–12, 541 students) — both operated by Perry Central Com Schools Corp at the same address. There is no standalone middle school, so the junior-senior high serves grades 7–8 as well as 9–12, for a combined enrollment of roughly 1,275 students.

The Perry Central Com Schools Corp district ranks 55th of 374 Indiana districts, in the 85th percentile with 4 stars, and both schools earned 4 stars in 2025–2026 after dropping to 3 stars in 2024–2025. The Perry Central Junior-Senior High School is the relative standout: 71st of 415 high schools (83rd percentile), a 97.2% graduation rate versus 89.7% statewide, and a striking SAT turnaround, with Evidence-based Reading and Writing climbing from 43.68% to 54.44% (state 51.9%) and Math from 21.84% to 31.11% (state 25.6%). Its Biology End-of-Course result was 67.65% in 2024–2025 against 45.6% statewide. The Perry Central Elementary School stands out for attendance and early math: chronic absenteeism of 8.0% and all-grades math at 56.28%, above the district's 51.47%.

Attendance is a shared strength — elementary 8.0% and junior-senior high 9.6% chronic absenteeism, both far below the state's 16.7%. Watch points include elementary 5th-grade ELA (40.59% vs. state 42.2%) and Social Studies (41.58% vs. 47.2%), and the high school's all-grades ILEARN Math (40.24% vs. district 51.47%), even though its grade-level math and SAT Math exceed state. Resource differences are visible: the high school spends $12,806 per student vs. $11,017, with a student-teacher ratio of 13.1 vs. 19.3.