Summary:
The two schools in zip code 42348 are in Hancock County: South Hancock Elementary School serves prekindergarten through grade 5, and Hancock County Alternative Program serves grades 6–12; together they enroll 229 students, and there is no middle school in the list. The available test results cannot support a score comparison between the schools because the Alternative Program’s results are suppressed. The clearest academic finding is that South Hancock exceeded the state in 8 of its 10 reported grade-and-subject results in 2025–2026.
South Hancock Elementary School stands out for its state-relative results, especially fourth-grade science, where 58% met proficiency compared with 40% statewide, an 18-point lead; its fourth-grade reading was 60% versus 50%. Its weakest reported result was fifth-grade social studies: 33%, 5 points below the state’s 38%. For attendance, Hancock County Alternative Program stands out in the other direction: chronic absenteeism was 33% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% at South Hancock, 20% in the district, and 24% statewide. That is a 15-point difference between the schools, though they serve different grade spans and settings.
South Hancock’s results show both notable gains and setbacks from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: fourth-grade science rose 20 points and third- and fourth-grade reading increased 12 and 11 points, while fifth-grade social studies fell 24 points and fifth-grade reading fell 11. Across the 10 reported results, its average was 49% in 2024–2025 and 48% in 2025–2026; its lead over the state narrowed by 1 point, from 5 to 4 points. SchoolDigger gave South Hancock 3 stars in each listed year, with its statewide percentile moving from 58 to 62 and its rank from 291 of 685 to 262 of 684. As context, South Hancock’s student-teacher ratio was 13 and its free/reduced lunch eligible share was 51% in 2024–2025; the Alternative Program’s figures were 8 and 69%.
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