Union Junior & High School

Union Junior & High School, an one-room-style high school in Modoc, Indiana, run under Union School Corporation, serves 131 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 816 students per school, that is 84% leaner than typical.

Union School Corporation comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 7,821 students; Union Junior & High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Union Junior & High School reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Union Junior & High School records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Union Junior & High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Union Junior & High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.0%; this one comes in at 10.9%, -23.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Randolph County indicate median household income runs about $60,791, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Randolph County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,772 students), Union Junior & High School is one campus in the mix.

Union Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Union Junior & High School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 39.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 72%: 475 students in 2018 compared to 131 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 81% to 93%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 3.3:1 in 2025.

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