Summary:
The city of Paoli, Indiana is home to two schools - Throop Elementary School and Paoli Junior & Senior High School, both part of the Paoli Community School Corp district. While the elementary school consistently outperforms the high school academically, the district maintains a strong focus on student success with favorable student-teacher ratios and equitable resource distribution.
Throop Elementary School stands out as the higher-performing school, with consistently strong academic results across ILEARN assessments, even with a diverse student population and high percentage of free/reduced-price lunch recipients. In contrast, Paoli Junior & Senior High School maintains a solid graduation rate but lags behind the elementary school in academic proficiency, particularly in mathematics, suggesting an opportunity for improvement in math instruction and outcomes.
The district-level spending per student is relatively consistent between the two schools, with the high school spending slightly more, indicating an equitable distribution of resources. Both schools also have favorable student-teacher ratios, with the high school having a slightly lower ratio. However, chronic absenteeism rates, while not exceptionally high, are still a concern and could be an area for improvement at both schools to positively impact academic performance.
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