Tipton High School

Tipton High School is a high school of compact scale in Tipton, Indiana, run under Tipton Community School Corp, teacheing 437 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 46% below the state mean of about 816.

Tipton Community School Corp comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,366 students; Tipton High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tipton High School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Tipton High School records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tipton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,156 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tipton County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,152 students), of which Tipton High School is one.

Tipton Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Tipton High School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 503 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 93% to 88% over that span.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.