Summary:
The city of Shoals, Indiana is home to three public schools that serve students from elementary through high school: Shoals Community Elementary School, Shoals Community High School, and Shoals Middle School. These schools, operated by the Shoals Community School Corp, face significant challenges, including low academic performance, high chronic absenteeism, and a lack of diversity among the student population.
The standout schools in Shoals include the elementary school, which has a very homogeneous student body that is 97.45% white, and consistently low performance on state assessments. The high school, while having a slightly more diverse population, also struggles with extremely high chronic absenteeism rates of 41.0% and poor academic performance on the SAT. The middle school falls somewhere in the middle, with mixed results on state assessments and a high chronic absenteeism rate of 31.4%.
Across the district, the schools in Shoals face systemic challenges, including low proficiency rates on standardized tests, high rates of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, and varying student-teacher ratios and spending per student. Addressing these issues, such as the root causes of absenteeism and ensuring equitable resource allocation, will be crucial for the Shoals Community School Corp to provide a high-quality education to all of its students.
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