Milan Intermediate School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Milan Intermediate School
Milan Intermediate School is a very small middle school in Milan, Indiana, operated by Milan Community Schools. The school works with 159 students in grades 5 through 6. That puts it 73% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.
Within Milan Community Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,095 students, Milan Intermediate School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Milan Intermediate School records that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Milan Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Milan Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ripley County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Milan Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 38.1%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ripley County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,573 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Milan Intermediate School is one of 13 public schools in Ripley County (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students).
Milan Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Milan Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Milan Intermediate School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 41.7%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Milan Intermediate School's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 165 (now 159).
Inside the community feed, the feed for Milan Intermediate School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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- Milan Elementary SchoolElementary · 462 students
- Milan High SchoolHigh · 315 students
- Milan Middle SchoolMiddle · 159 students
- Milan Elementary SchoolElementary · 462 students
- Milan High SchoolHigh · 315 students
- Milan Middle SchoolMiddle · 159 students
- Milan Middle School0.0 mi · 159
- Milan High School0.1 mi · 315
- Milan Elementary School0.6 mi · 462
- Manchester Elementary School7.2 mi · 145
- Sunman Elementary School8.3 mi · 327
- South Ripley High School8.4 mi · 358