Summary:
ZIP code 47551 covers Leopold, Indiana, and contains a single public high school: Perry Central Junior-Senior High School, which serves grades 7 through 12 with 541 students and belongs to the Perry Central Com Schools Corp. Because it is the only school in the area, the useful comparisons are against its own district, the state of Indiana, and its own prior years.
Perry Central's current profile is strong. The district holds a 4-star rating and ranks 55th of 374 districts statewide (85th percentile), while the school earned a 4-star rating in 2025–2026, ranking 71st of 415 high schools (83rd percentile) — up sharply from 154th of 429 (64th percentile, 3 stars) the year before. The graduation rate is 97.2%, which is 7.5 percentage points above the state rate of 89.7% and matches the district. Chronic absenteeism is 9.6%, well below the state's 16.7% and only slightly above the district's 8.7%. Middle-grade ILEARN results beat the state in all four reported areas: ELA 7th grade at 44% vs 41.7%, ELA 8th at 53.93% vs 44%, Math 7th at 40% vs 35.9%, and Math 8th at 40.45% vs 34.2%. SAT performance rebounded dramatically, with Evidence-based Reading and Writing rising from 43.68% to 54.44% and Math from 21.84% to 31.11% — both now above state averages after previously falling below them.
Two areas merit watching. Math, All Grades sits at 40.24% versus the district's 51.47%, an 11.23-point gap, though this partly reflects that the district figure includes elementary grades not tested at this school — at the specific 7th and 8th grade levels, the school matches the district and exceeds the state. Biology End of Course proficiency also declined from 67.65% to 57.69%, a drop of 9.96 percentage points, though it remains above the prior state benchmark of 45.6%. For context, 36.04% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $12,806, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.1.
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