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Paul Hadley 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 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Paul Hadley Middle School
Set in Mooresville, Indiana, Paul Hadley Middle School is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus, overseen by Mooresville Con School Corp. It works with 668 students across grades 7 through 8.
Paul Hadley Middle School is one of 7 schools operated by Mooresville Con School Corp, a district that works with 4,318 students overall.
Demographically, Paul Hadley Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.
On the resource side, Paul Hadley Middle School shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Paul Hadley Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Morgan County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,429, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Morgan County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,142 students), Paul Hadley Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Mooresville High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Paul Hadley Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Looking at the recent track record. Paul Hadley Middle School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 688 (now 668). White enrollment moved from 93% to 88% across the same window.
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