Summary:
Tipton Community School Corp has a single high school, Tipton High School, serving grades 9-12. Located in Tipton, Indiana, the school has a predominantly white student population of 439 students, with a significant population of economically disadvantaged students as indicated by the 33.26% free and reduced-price lunch rate.
Tipton High School has shown steady improvement in its statewide ranking, moving from 167th out of 409 Indiana high schools in 2021-2022 to 85th out of 431 in 2023-2024, with a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger. However, the school's academic performance is marked by a significant disparity, with 60.4% of 11th-grade students proficient or better in SAT/Evidence-based Reading and Writing, but only 26.73% proficient or better in SAT/Mathematics. Additionally, the school's performance on the ILEARN/Biology End of Course exam was lower than the state average, with only 12.62% of students proficient or better compared to 29% statewide.
Despite the school's strong 95.8% four-year graduation rate, it also faces the challenge of a relatively high chronic absenteeism rate of 17.9%. The school's per-student spending for the 2021-2022 school year was $12,343, and it has a student-teacher ratio of 11.6 to 1 for the 2022-2023 school year. Overall, Tipton High School appears to be a relatively strong-performing school within the state of Indiana, but with room for improvement in areas such as mathematics instruction and student attendance.
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