Summary:
ZIP code 43333 in Lewistown, Ohio is served by a single elementary school, Indian Lake Elementary School, part of the Indian Lake Local district. The school serves grades PK–4 with 530 students enrolled, so families in this area have one elementary option to consider rather than a choice among several schools.
Indian Lake Elementary performs well above the Ohio state average in every reported test comparison across both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. In 2025–2026, 3rd grade math was 79.4% proficient versus 62.1% statewide, 4th grade math was 84.5% versus 67.3%, 3rd grade English Language Arts was 94.8% versus 63.4%, and 4th grade ELA was 68.9% versus 61.8%. The 3rd grade ELA result is the standout — 31.4 points above the state and the highest single figure in the data — while 4th grade ELA, though still above state, shows the narrowest margin and a slight dip from 69.4% the prior year. Averaged across the four 2025–2026 tests, the school reached 81.9% proficiency against 63.7% for the state.
The school's state rank has climbed steadily: from 425 of 1,577 schools (73rd percentile) in 2023–2024, to 344 of 1,558 (78th percentile) in 2024–2025, to 289 of 1,560 (81st percentile) in 2025–2026, holding 4 stars each year. Beyond test scores, chronic absenteeism was 9.0% in 2025–2026, lower than the district's 12.2%, and the student-teacher ratio was 16:1 in 2024–2025. For context, 62.45% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, indicating a high-poverty population. Note that per-student spending of $9,280 comes from 2018–2019 and is historical, and the district's test scores match the school's exactly, since this school accounts for the tested grades.
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