William W Borden High School
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
About William W Borden High School
As a minimally staffed four-year high school in Borden, Indiana, William W Borden High School instructs 302 students from grades 7 through 12, run under Borden-Henryville School Corporation. Compared to the state average of about 816 students per school, that is 63% leaner than typical.
William W Borden High School is one of 4 schools operated by Borden-Henryville School Corporation, a district that teaches 1,733 students overall.
Looking at the student body, William W Borden High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder reads as 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Clark County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, William W Borden High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.4%; this one delivers 57.7%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Clark County put median household income runs about $74,214, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Clark County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,765 students), William W Borden High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: William W Borden Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, William W Borden High School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.
William W Borden High School operates from a low-density location.
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