Summary:
ZIP code 47941 is home to a single public elementary school — Dayton Elementary School — a K–5 school with 390 students in the small town of Dayton, Indiana, part of Tippecanoe School Corp. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP, there are no local schools to compare it against; the useful yardsticks are the district, the state, and the school's own prior years. In 2025–26 it ranked 274th of 1,015 Indiana elementary schools, at the 73rd percentile with 4 stars, up from 378th of 1,011, the 63rd percentile, and 3 stars in 2023–24. The district itself ranks 83rd of 374 statewide.
English language arts is the school's clear strength. All-grade ELA proficiency rose from 53.08% in 2024–25 to 60% in 2025–26, well above the district's 51.44%. Third-grade ELA was 64.15% against the state's 40.8%, fourth grade was 60.98% against 42.2%, and even fifth grade, at 54.55%, was about 12 points above the state. Math is more uneven: all-grade math was 54.21%, above the district's 51.23%, with third grade at 62.26% and fourth at 58.54%, both above state marks. Fifth-grade math, however, was just 40%, below the district's 52.44% and the state's 42% — the clearest area to watch. Science came in at 47.56% all grades, below the district's 53.19% but above the state's 43.8% at the tested fourth-grade level. Fifth-grade social studies fell sharply, from 55.88% to 41.82%, now below both the district's 58.65% and the state's 47.2%.
Attendance is a major positive: chronic absenteeism was 8.2% in 2024–25, compared with 10.5% in the district and 16.7% statewide — less than half the state rate. About 48.46% of students receive free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 15.9, and per-student spending was $10,961 in 2023–24. Overall, the school has moved from 3 stars to 4 stars and holds a spot near the top quarter of Indiana elementary schools, with fifth-grade math, fifth-grade social studies, and science relative to the district as the main cautions.
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