Summary:
ZIP 47552 — Lincoln City, in Spencer County, Indiana — contains exactly one middle school: Heritage Hills Middle School, which serves grades 7–8 with 341 students as part of the North Spencer County School Corp. Because it is the only middle school in the area, this is a detailed profile rather than a comparison between local peers.
Heritage Hills is a standout by any measure. It has earned five stars in each of the last three ranking years, with percentile ranks of 97, 97, and 98, and its statewide rank improved from 16th to 13th to 12th — the 12th-best of 486 Indiana middle schools, roughly the top 2.5% of the state. Its parent district also ranks 11th of 374 districts statewide. On ILEARN, 65.07% of 7th graders and 65.87% of 8th graders were proficient in English Language Arts, about 22–23 points above the state. Math proficiency was 63.01% in 7th grade and 62.28% in 8th grade, roughly 27–28 points above the state. Because the district's grade-level figures match the school's exactly, Heritage Hills Middle is the district's only provider of grades 7–8 — so the district's higher all-grade math average (67.41% versus the school's 62.62%) comes from its elementary schools, not from peers at this school.
Chronic absenteeism is 8.3% — about half the state's 16.7%, though slightly above the district's 7.0%. About 35.19% of students (roughly 120 of 341) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school spends $8,663 per student with 18.9 students per teacher. Year over year, ELA rose 6.3 points while math fell 5.8 points; because state benchmarks are provided only for grade-level rows, and last year's 7th graders became this year's 8th graders, that swing cannot be cleanly attributed to instruction alone. The central takeaway holds: consistently top-2% results, exceptionally strong proficiency relative to the state, and unusually low absenteeism.
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