Schools in Zip Code 47862

ZIP code 47862 is home to two public schools in the Southwest Parke Com School Corp, serving 684 students in total: Riverton Parke Junior-Senior High School (grades 7–12, 471 students) and Montezuma Elementary School (grades PK–6, 213 students), with no standalone middle school — grades 7 and 8 sit inside the junior-senior high.

Riverton Parke Junior-Senior High School stands out for completion and attendance: a 95.1% graduation rate is above Indiana's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism of 12.9% is below the state's 16.7%. Seventh grade ELA, at 45.07%, also beats the state's 41.7%. College-readiness exams are the weak spot — SAT Math is 11.9% versus the state's 25.6%, and SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing is 42.86% versus 51.9%. Biology End of Course fell from 33.73% to 15.79%, and the school's rank slipped from 2 stars to 1 star (307th of 415, 26th percentile).

Montezuma Elementary School shows a sharp split by grade. Third grade math is a bright spot at 65.22%, above both the district's 58.06% and the state's 51.9%. But results weaken in later grades: all-grade ELA is 17.54%, 4th grade ELA 13.89%, 5th grade ELA 3.85%, and 5th grade Social Studies 11.54% against the state's 47.2%. Fifth and 6th grade math are 15.38% and 13.79%. Both schools sit at 1 star and roughly the 25th–26th percentile, below the district's 2 stars and 34th percentile. Montezuma has higher free/reduced lunch (64.79% vs 49.68%) and per-pupil spending ($13,303 vs $12,041); student-teacher ratios are similar (9.5 vs 9.9).