Summary:
ZIP code 47850 covers Farmersburg, Indiana, and is home to two public schools serving grades K–12 within the Northeast School Corp district: Northeast North Elementary School (K–6, 237 students) and North Central Junior/Senior High School (7–12, 369 students), for a combined enrollment of 606 students.
Neither school is a high overall performer — both earned 1 star in 2025–2026 and rank in the bottom third of Indiana schools (elementary 743 of 1,015, 27th percentile; high school 326 of 415, 21st percentile), below the district's 36th percentile and 2-star rating. The elementary school's standout strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 9.3%, well below the district's 12.9% and the state's 16.7%. The high school's standout is its 95.1% graduation rate, above the state's 89.7%, though its chronic absenteeism is higher at 15.8%. Academically, the elementary school edges ahead on All Grades measures: 27.78% ELA and 27.78% math versus 26.92% ELA and 19.23% math at the high school. Its best result is 4th-grade math at 46.67%, and 5th-grade ELA at 36.67%.
Math is the clearest shared weakness. The high school's SAT Math proficiency is just 2.08% (state: 25.6%) and 8th-grade math is 10.77% (state: 34.2%); the elementary school's 3rd-grade math is 23.33% (state: 51.9%) and 5th-grade math is 20.00% (state: 42%). Poverty is high at both schools, with free/reduced lunch at 59.92% at the elementary and 50.41% at the high school, yet the elementary's attendance is markedly better. The high school spends more per student ($13,560 versus $12,035) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (12.7 versus 13.9), so resources alone don't explain the differences. Rank trends also diverge: the elementary slipped from the 37th to the 27th percentile over three years, while the high school moved 21% → 15% → 21%.
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