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Lebanon Middle School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lebanon Middle School
Lebanon Middle School operates as a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Lebanon, Indiana, run under Lebanon Community School Corp. Current enrollment sits at 849 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 43% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.
Lebanon Community School Corp runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,701 students. Lebanon Middle School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Lebanon Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school records 13% Black, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Lebanon Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Boone County's rate of about 22%.
With demographic context factored in, Lebanon Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of -6.8 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Boone County put the typical household earns roughly $111,250 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Boone County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,246 students), of which Lebanon Middle School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Lebanon Senior High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Lebanon Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lebanon Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 49.9%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lebanon Middle School has rose 5%, going from 805 students in 2018 to 849 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 2% to 13%.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Boone County at a glance
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- Lebanon Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,070 students
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