Summary:
ZIP code 47670, which covers Princeton, Indiana, has two elementary schools serving grades K-5 with a combined enrollment of 847 students, both part of North Gibson School Corporation. Princeton Community Primary School covers grades K-2 with 417 students, and Princeton Community Intermediate School covers grades 3-5 with 430 students.
The two schools have very different profiles. The Primary school has smaller classes (student-teacher ratio 10.6 versus 17.2), spends more per student ($12,545 versus $11,537), and has a lower free/reduced lunch rate (41.73% versus 57.44%). However, the Primary school has no test scores or rank history listed in this data, so its academic performance cannot be judged here. The Intermediate school is the only one with measurable achievement data. Its all-grades math proficiency is 39.43%, which is 8.42 percentage points above the district's 31.01%, and science came in slightly above district at 36.09%. Compared with the state, most grade-level results are below average: 3rd grade math is 33.87% versus 51.90% statewide, and 3rd grade ELA is 23.20% versus 40.80%. The one exception is 5th grade math at 42.74%, a 0.74-point edge over the state's 42.00%.
The Intermediate school's rank has improved modestly but steadily, moving from 682 of 1,011 schools in 2023-2024 to 650 of 1,015 in 2025-2026, with its percentile rising from 33 to 36, though it remains a 2-star school. At the district level, North Gibson School Corporation ranks 259 of 374 Indiana districts, at the 31st percentile with 2 stars. Chronic absenteeism is a shared challenge: 17.0% at the Intermediate school and 17.2% at the Primary school, both slightly above the district rate of 16.8% and state rate of 16.7%.
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