Summary:
ZIP code 47552 in Lincoln City, Indiana is a small, tightly clustered school community with just two schools — one middle and one high school serving grades 7 through 12 — both run by North Spencer County School Corp and located on the same road. Heritage Hills Middle School enrolls 341 students in grades 7–8, while Heritage Hills High School enrolls 634 students in grades 9–12, for a combined 975 students. Because there are no elementary schools in this ZIP, families here enter the local system at grade 7, so the data on record covers only the upper half of the K–12 experience.
Both schools are strong, but the middle school is the standout. It ranks #12 of 486 Indiana middle schools (98th percentile) in 2025–2026, up from #13 and #16 in prior years, and carries 5 stars every year on record. The high school also earns 5 stars each year, but its standing slipped from #18 of 429 (96th percentile) to #28 of 415 (93rd percentile). That dip tracks the SAT: English fell from 69.33% to 64.86% proficient and SAT Math from 46.01% to 43.24%, while Biology held flat at about 64.5%. The district as a whole ranks #11 of 374 statewide, in the top 3%.
Math is the area's signature strength, with proficiency running roughly 1.7 to 1.8 times the state rate: SAT Math at 43.24% versus 25.6% statewide, 7th-grade math at 63.01% versus 35.9%, and 8th-grade math at 62.28% versus 34.2%. Reading is excellent too, just by a narrower margin. Notably, the middle school achieves the higher ranking despite higher poverty (35.19% free/reduced lunch versus 28.71%), larger classes (18.9 students per teacher versus 14.2), and 32% less spending per student ($8,663 versus $11,439) — a reminder that resources and outcomes do not move in lockstep. Chronic absenteeism is about half the state rate at both schools (9.6% and 8.3% versus 16.7%), though both sit above the district's 7.0%, and the high school's 96.5% graduation rate beats the state's 89.7%.
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