Summary:
ZIP code 47862 in Montezuma, Indiana is home to exactly one high school — Riverton Parke Junior-Senior High School, which serves grades 7 through 12 with 471 students as part of the Southwest Parke Com School Corp. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are its own district and the state of Indiana.
The school's strongest results are in completion and attendance. Its graduation rate is 95.1%, matching the district and running 5.4 points above the state's 89.7%. Chronic absenteeism sits at 12.9%, better than the state's 16.7% but higher than the district's 9.6%. Class sizes are relatively small, with a student-teacher ratio of 9.9, per-student spending of $12,041 in 2023-24, and about half of students (49.68%) qualifying for free or reduced lunch. The academic picture is more mixed. All-grades ILEARN ELA rose from 32.85% to 41.55% and now beats the district's 27.87%, but SAT ERW fell from 50.75% to 42.86% and remains below the state's 51.9%.
Math is the clearest area of concern. All-grades ILEARN math edged up from 29.93% to 31.69% but stays below the district's 38.88%, and Grade 8 math is 28.17% against a state figure of 34.2%. SAT Math is especially low at 11.9% versus the state's 25.6%, a gap of 13.7 points, and it declined from 14.93% the prior year. Biology EOC dropped sharply from 33.73% to 15.79%. Overall, the school ranks 307 of 415 Indiana high schools, in the 26th percentile with 1 star, down from the 38th percentile in 2024-25. Families should weigh the solid graduation and attendance outcomes against real academic proficiency challenges, particularly in math and science.
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