Summary:
ZIP code 47586 contains just one public high school: Tell City Junior-Senior High School, a grades 7–12 campus serving 617 students as part of the Tell City-Troy Township School Corp in Indiana. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no second local school to compare it with; the most useful benchmarks are its district, the state, and its own prior years. Its record covers enrollment, graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, ILEARN, SAT and Biology results, free/reduced lunch, per-student spending and student-teacher ratio, with data spanning 2023–2024 through 2025–2026.
The strongest signals are in graduation and middle-grades reading. The graduation rate is 96.1%, well above Indiana's 89.7%, and 7th and 8th grade ELA scores are far ahead of state averages — 55.24% versus 41.7% and 58.49% versus 44.0% in 2025–2026. All-grade ILEARN ELA also climbed from 44.5% in 2024–2025 to 56.87% in 2025–2026, moving from roughly district-level to clearly above it. Seventh and eighth grade math are slightly above state as well, at 36.19% versus 35.9% and 35.24% versus 34.2%.
Other results are more mixed. Chronic absenteeism is 19.2%, higher than the district's 17.2% and the state's 16.7%, meaning roughly one in five students is chronically absent. SAT Math proficiency is 21.9% against the state's 25.6%, and SAT ERW trails slightly at 50.48% versus 51.9%. Biology slipped from 42.45% to 39.6% year over year. The school holds 3 stars in each recent year, but its rank eased from 151 of 432 to 188 of 415 — the 55th percentile. For context, 48.3% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 11.6, and per-student spending was $11,123 in 2023–2024.
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