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Tri Junior-Senior High 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 21 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 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Tri Junior-Senior High School
Located at 6972 S St Rd 103, in Straughn, Indiana, Tri Junior-Senior High School is a compact four-year high school that works with 458 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by South Henry School Corp. Compared to the state average of about 816 students per school, that is 44% smaller than typical.
South Henry School Corp runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 816 students. Tri Junior-Senior High School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Tri Junior-Senior High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school records 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Tri Junior-Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tri Junior-Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.3%; this one delivers 26.8%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Henry County shows median household income runs about $63,150, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Henry County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,081 students), Tri Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Tri Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tri Junior-Senior High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.
Tri Junior-Senior High School operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Tri Junior-Senior High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 449 (now 458).
On this page, 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.
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