Best Public Schools in Zip Code 47959

ZIP code 47959 covers Monon, Indiana, where three public schools serve the community: North White Elementary School (grades K–5, 435 students), North White Middle School (grades 6–8, 197 students), and North White High School (grades 9–12, 272 students), all within North White School Corp, with 904 students enrolled overall and a district that ranks 335th of 374 in Indiana.

North White Middle School faces the steepest challenges: it ranks 445th of 486 schools at the 8th percentile with 0 stars, down from 1 star in 2023–2024, with all-grades math at 7.73% and 8th-grade math at 5.97% against the state's 34.2%; it also has the highest free/reduced-price lunch share (82.74%) and the lowest per-student spending ($8,124). North White Elementary School shows the brightest signals: chronic absenteeism of 8.5% is well below the district's 17.8% and the state's 16.7%, and its all-grades math proficiency is 30.93%, with 3rd-grade math at 46.05% within about 6 points of the state's 51.9%, although 4th- and 5th-grade math and ELA remain far below state averages. North White High School has the strongest completion measure — a 95.0% graduation rate versus the state's 89.7% — and the lowest student-teacher ratio (12.8), but SAT math proficiency is only 5.36% against the state's 25.6%, and its chronic absenteeism is the highest at 29.6%.

Taken together, the three schools are all bottom-quartile in Indiana, and attendance tracks with outcomes — the school with the lowest chronic absenteeism has the strongest math results, while the two with higher absenteeism have the weakest. The middle school is the clearest outlier on rank, math, absenteeism, and poverty. The high school's high graduation rate alongside very low SAT math suggests students are finishing but often not demonstrating college-ready math. Notably, spending and staffing do not track directly with outcomes: the high school spends the most per student ($17,248) and has the smallest classes but still posts very low SAT math, while the elementary school has the largest classes yet the best attendance and math.